“Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. These are the things you already know:

Source: Memnoch the Devil

Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 3 (p. 20)

Comment about the title of Robert Fulghum's famous book, in I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional : The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions (1992), Introduction, p. 7

Source: The Artist's Way

Source: Funky Business Forever, 2007, p. 184
Context: Gallery visitors did not tell Picasso to invent cubism. Jazz fanatics did not suggest that should work with hip-hoppers. Moviegoers did not propose to Lars von Trier, the Danish film director, that he make Breaking the Waves. And customers sure as hell did not come up with the idea for CDNow or Amazon. com. If you want to do something really interesting and revolutionary, learn to ignore your customers.

The Second Coming (1980)

2001 - 2010, Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans' (2003)