{"id":1690,"title":"This Stone Had Always Wanted To Be a Fish... Some People Are Never Satisfied","dimensions":"30 x 64 x 43 cm","date_begin":"2003-01-01","material":"grey granite, acrylic","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"Previous title: Some things are better left unsaid\r\nArtist Certificate\r\nCurrently in the artist's storage: Grossgörschenstrasse 6, 10827 Berlin, Schöneberg, Germany.\r\nInsurance value: 45.000 euros. Owner has agreed to having the work photographed for catalogue, TV, press and educational use. Should be listed as belonging to artist and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (courtesy of the artist and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City).","date_end":null,"reference":"JD2297","stream_count_app":33,"permalink":"this-stone-had-always-wanted-to-be-a-fish-some-people-are-never-satisfied","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Sculpture","nl":"Sculptuur","fr":"Sculpture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/008/009/large/Some%20Things%20Are%20Better%20Left%20Unsaid.jpg?1332424135","poster_credits":"(c)image: Nigel Davidson","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"“When I paint a silly, nondescript face on stone-as-nature I want to give our mother her true face. Nature does not care. If there be gods they are not witnessed as caring. It does not follow as a moral, this next statement, but is my personal note in case you think I am cynical: It is we who must care, and develop more intellect.” [full text [here](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3214)]"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"'Als ik een dwaas, nietszeggend gezicht schilder op steen-als-natuur, dan wil ik onze moeder haar ware gezicht geven. De natuur is niet bekommerd. Als er goden zijn, dan zijn er geen getuigenissen van hen als bezorgde wezens. Voor het geval dat je denkt dat ik cynisch ben: het volgende statement is geen zedenles, maar mijn persoonlijke noot: wij zijn het die bekommerd moeten zijn, en meer intellect moeten ontwikkelen'. [volledige Engelse tekst [hier](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3214)]"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"« Lorsque je peins un visage niais, insignifiant sur une pierre comme nature, je désire donner à notre mère nature son vrai visage. La nature n'y prête aucune attention. S'il y a des dieux, ils ne font pas montre d’une grande attention. L'affirmation suivante n'a pas vocation à prêcher une morale, il s'agit juste d'une remarque personnelle, au cas où vous me croiriez cynique : c'est à nous qu'il incombe d'être plus attentifs et de développer plus d'intellect.\" [texte intégral en anglais [ici](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3214)]"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":209,"name":"Jimmie Durham","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}