"Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe."

-- Sophie Swetchine

#Blessed Quotes #Air Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
“The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.”
“If I can't write it would be as if I died.”
“Perhaps the more "operatic" video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece, I was locked into an idea, and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.”

Source : "Collaborating with Strangers". Art21 Interview, art21.org.
“Complex things oftentimes disrupt social norms.”
“Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.”
“I'll never have enough of you, never.”
“I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them â€“ what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.”

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