"There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens."

-- Andrea Zittel

#Artist Quotes #Being An Artist Quotes #Position Quotes

“Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.158, Univ of California Press
“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”
“Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”
“The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.”
“I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.”
“To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.”
“I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.”
“I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.”

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