Top 37 Quotes by David Antin

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.