"I think the idea of embracing the process, creating something, no matter how thin it is, that you can call a starting point - whether it's a word or it's an idea, or it's a little piece of narrative that you might base a film on - starting that journey of making the work. That's also something that every individual does very differently."

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Doug Aitken

#Journey Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Film Quotes

“Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.”
“Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.”
“But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.”
“I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.”
“If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.”
“We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.”
“There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.”
“The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.”

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