"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting"
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The real bite is in the trade-off he names without dramatizing it. "Maybe no good from a PR perspective" acknowledges the modern demand that artists be legible: a clean genre tag, a marketable narrative, a repeatable product. Frith's subtext is that coherence is often outsourced to publicity, and that saying yes-to the messy, the peripheral, the unclassifiable-is a form of resistance. Not heroic resistance; practical resistance, the kind that keeps you working.
His pivot to "everyday life" matters. He refuses to cordon off experimentation as a special, gallery-approved activity. The point isn't to be avant-garde; it's to avoid stagnation. In an attention economy that rewards certainty and punishes drift, Frith argues for a creative posture built on permeability. Interesting, here, isn't a vibe. It's a discipline: staying available to what you don't yet know how to name.
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Frith, Fred. (2026, January 17). There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-always-things-to-examine-whats-great-is-74260/
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Frith, Fred. "There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-always-things-to-examine-whats-great-is-74260/.
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"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-always-things-to-examine-whats-great-is-74260/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





