"Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions."

-- Kiki Smith

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“For me, all mother in the world are my goddesses.”
“Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.”

Source : Scott E. Page (2008). “The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies”, p.26, Princeton University Press
“I'm the luckiest writer on earth.”
“Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.”
“Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.”
“Life is short, the art long.”
“Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
“When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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