Matthew Barney Quotes

People can't stay out of their cars. I do think we have a real problem staying out of our automobiles. We have a real dependency on them, and it may be for more than just transportation.

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.

A car just gets me from A to B. I really don't spend that much time driving.

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

The '65 Impala is pretty much me as a car.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.

Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one day just for 15 minutes and it was terrible. You know why? I felt like I was back in LA again. Four or five years ago, when I had a car and I had been out of the city I wouldn't feel I was back until I got in the car, you know. But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people-and I wish them no ill-are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.

You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?

I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.

A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.

Anybody who gives their car to a valet isn't a car guy

L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.

If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance

I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.

We can only love a person who eats what we eat.