"Artists make worlds for people to walk through."

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Source : "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

Patricia Piccinini

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.”
“A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.”
“If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)”
“You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.”
“Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music”
“I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.”
“Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.”

Source : Richard Armour (1961). “A Safari Into Satire”
“So far it's 43 books in 25 years.”

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