"Art is the one place we all turn to for solace."

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Source : "Artist Carrie Mae Weems on 30 Years of Genius [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kristin Braswell, www.ebony.com. February 5, 2014.

Carrie Mae Weems

#Art Quotes #Solace Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.”
“I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.”

Source : Antoine Predock, Brad Collins, Juliette Robbins (1994). “Antoine Predock, architect”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“I don't have designer clothes in my closet. I just wear them once and give them back.”
“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”
“Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is”
“Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking. Though they're not old enough to be valuable for their age alone, nor important enough to be sought after by collectors, my charges are dear to me, even if, as often as not, they are as dull on the inside as on the outside. No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.”

Source : Marjorie Bowen (1951). “To Bed at Noon”
“One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.”

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