Moyra Davey famous quotes

To be making something as yet unformed, unknown - to be living in a deferred moment - is the most seductive way to exist.
-- Moyra Davey

#Seductive #Way #Moments

I always credit; I never just steal something. I'm very much a product of everything that I've read and seen and heard or listened to.
-- Moyra Davey

#Credit #Stealing #Heard

I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more, I guess. It involves separating life, breaking off this chunk that's devoted to making something. There's a lot of pleasure in that, but there can also be a lot of struggle. There's always this fantasy that you could just live life and not have to think about it.
-- Moyra Davey

#Struggle #Live Life #Writing

When you hate the thing that you're working on, that's when you question it.
-- Moyra Davey

#Hate

Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.
-- Moyra Davey

#Distance #Mean #Feelings

You can't be judgmental. You have to do your best not to be, I think.
-- Moyra Davey

#Thinking #Judgmental

I actually like a film in a gallery, because you don't have to show up at a certain time to see something, you can just walk in whenever. I like that freedom to be able to see something anytime. I personally don't mind watching something knowing that it's not the beginning and then just letting it run its cycle.
-- Moyra Davey

#Running #Knowing #Mind

Of course it's a lot easier for me if I think of myself as a character to say certain things; it gives me a kind of liberty to say things that I otherwise wouldn't. It's always my hope that it will come across as me and not me at the same time.
-- Moyra Davey

#Character #Thinking #Giving

I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.

Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.