"A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently."

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Source : "John Edgar Wideman Against the World" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 2017.

John Edgar Wideman

#Eye Quotes #Artist Quotes #Reality Quotes

“DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.”
“It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.”
“I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.”
“These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.”
“I just hope I can continue to do work that matters to me, Iâ€™m not interested in being any kind of superstar or anything Iâ€™m not. Iâ€™m just a dude who got lucky and an artist who cares about the work that I do.”
“Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.”
“I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.”
“If you do keep the faith and continue to be radical, very bad things can and do happen to you. At the very least you will be marginalized. Same if you are poor and strike out. Prison awaits you in the USA.”

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