"I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space."

-- Valie Export

#Simple Quotes #Reality Quotes #People Quotes

“Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.”
“I like people-watching and fading into crowds.”
“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”
“Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
“That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.”

Source : "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 90), 1994.
“And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.”

Source : T. A. Barron (2011). “The Dragon of Avalon”, p.220, Penguin

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