Do-It-Yourself Quotes

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.