"My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention."

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Source : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

Radka Donnell

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“With love in our hearts, there is nothing we cannot overcome.”
“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.322, Oneworld Publications
“I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!”
“I use the Internet for what it's for: to learn.”
“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.”
“I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.”
“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
“The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?”

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