Mona Hatoum famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.
-- Mona Hatoum

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I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.
-- Mona Hatoum

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Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.
-- Mona Hatoum

#Art #Issues #Journalism

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

Mona Hatoum famous quotes

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