"I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read."

-- Sophie Calle

#Art Quotes #Wall Quotes #Writing Quotes

“A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.”

Source : Gayl Jones (2016). “The Healing”, p.30, Beacon Press
“This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.”
“They say crying makes the heart lighter”
“My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.”
“The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.”

Source : "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“For some years now, I've been doing a program called "Sinatra Sings Sinatra." It's been going on virtually since the end of '98. Nineteen ninety-eight was the year Frank Sinatra died. ... Now having reached what would have been his 100th year - I decided back in 2013 when we started to put all of this together, I decided what we should do was the first "Sinatra Sings Sinatra" in which we go audio visual.”

Source : Source: www.news-journalonline.com
“Malice remains its animating impulse.”

Source : "Iphigenia in Forest Hills". www.newyorker.com. May 3, 2010.
“We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.”

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