"I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing."

-- Eva Hesse

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“The most important things in life can't be seen with the eyes. Ideas can't be seen. Love can't be seen. Honor can't be seen. This isn't a new concept. Judaism and Christianity and Islam and Buddhism and Taoism have all taught for thousands of years that the highest forms of reality are invisible. God is invisible, and he created the universe. Our souls are invisible, and they give life to our bodies. Angels are invisible, and they're the most powerful of God's creatures.”
“I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.”
“If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.”
“Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.”
“People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.”
“Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.”
“Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products...”
“I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.”

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