Best 10 quotes of John Chamberlain on MyQuotes

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.

Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.