Quotes
In a 2002 interview for Salon.com in response to:
"So what have you tried to communicate as an artist? What were your goals, and have you achieved them?"
Tanning replies:
"I’d be satisfied with having suggested that there is more than meets the eye."
And in response to:
"What do you think of some of the artwork being produced today?"
Tanning replies:
"I can’t answer that without enraging the art world. It’s enough to say that most of it comes straight out of dada, 1917. I get the impression that the idea is to shock. So many people laboring to outdo Duchamp’s urinal. It isn’t even shocking anymore, just kind of sad."
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