Quotes from Calvin Tomkins

Oh, I'm a breather, I'm a respirateur, isn't that enough?" He asked, "Why do people have to work? Why do people think they have to work?" He

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years. I think there's an element in the slowness of the execution that adds to the possibility of producing something that will be durable in its expression, that will be considered important five centuries later.

things of great importance have to be slowly produced. I don't believe in speed in artistic production, and that goes with integration.