A biography for Chris Campanionihasn’t been written yet.
“To own beauty is the first lie of it.”
“Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.”
“It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. In actuality, or in each reality, underneath it all—I mean, behind it—the answer lies in”
“It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.”
“It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.”
“Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...”
“The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.”
“I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.”
“Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.”
“The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.”