"I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment."

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Source : Paul Thek, Witte de With, centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Neue Nationalgalerie (Germany), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Musées de Marseille. MAC, galeries contemporaines (1995). “Paul Thek: the wonderful world that almost was”, Witte de with Center for Contemporary Art

Paul Thek

#Thinking Quotes #Looks Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“A king who trusts no man is weak.”
“There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.”
“I know something you don't....and that is.... I'M NOT WEARING ANY UNDERWEAR! We're gonna get sexy for a minute!”
“Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, â€œthe vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.â€ Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another.”
“I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.”
“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”
“One question on hospital admittance forms really gets me. "Sex: Male or Female?" Do I want to be in a hospital where they can't tell the difference?”
“Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.”

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