El Anatsui famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.
-- El Anatsui

#Touching #Way
Art is a reflection on life. Life isnâ€™t something we can cut and fix. Itâ€™s always in a state of flux.
-- El Anatsui

#Art #Cutting #Reflection
I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.
-- El Anatsui

#New York #Sky #Cities
I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.
-- El Anatsui

#Thinking #Wish #Language

I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts
And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
People may like a personâ€™s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

El Anatsui famous quotes

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