"Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Camille Henrot

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“I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.”
“In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1918). “Colour in My Garden”
“Just live every day like it's your last day and be the best person that you can be.”
“A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.”
“The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.”
“I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'”
“The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.”
“People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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