"Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate."

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Source : Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

Whitney Chadwick

#Art Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Body Quotes

“Like for Putin it's really about hosting this two-week [Olympic] party and showing it off to the world.It's a pride thing. It's a big PR exercise for him and for Russia. So, at that point $50 billion and some environmental damage and a small city's future don't really matter.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Have you ever met a war you didn't love?”
“When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.”
“I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.
“Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.”
“Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure”
“One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.”
“On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.”

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