"To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence."

-- Louise Bourgeois

#Artist Quotes #Silence Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.”
“There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.”
“I asked Sunny if she would ever consider dating you. She said she would rather give birth to a porcupine on fire.”
“Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to ***** over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.”

Source : Gayle Rubin (2011). “Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader”, p.181, Duke University Press
“You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.”
“In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?”
“I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began”
“We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.”

Source : Interview with Derrick Jensen, www.derrickjensen.org. July 1, 2000.

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