"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."

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Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

Geoffrey Beene

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“Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.”
“I donâ€™t have a theoretical language for music. Iâ€™m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, â€˜youâ€™re not making music, youâ€™re creating a space. Youâ€™re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.â€™”
“I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.”
“I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.”
“Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.”
“I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.”
“I’m not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in the long-term I’m optimistic that we’ll see the pendulum swing back in the other direction towards more privacy.”
“I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedyâ€”for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2009). “A House of Air”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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