David Wojnarowicz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Dog #Heart #Feelings
Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Mean #Forever #Way
I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Running #Loving Life #America
Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Perfect #Darkness #Would Be
I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Simple #Worry #Funeral
Bottom line, if people don't say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Believe #Ideas #People
I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Rage
History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Hands #Class #People
I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find what I'm looking for outside of myself. It doesn't exist out there. Maybe it's only in here, inside my head. But my head is glass and my eyes have stopped being cameras, the tape has run out and nobody's words can touch me.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Running #Eye #Glasses
To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to construct a free-floating sentence that speaks about the world I witness.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Order #Together #Floating
... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Mirrors #Exactly Is #World
No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world will not throw billions of dollars at photography the way it has at painting; and that is what makes it an exciting medium.
-- David Wojnarowicz

#Photography #Art #Dollars

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