"I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas."

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Source : Carolee Schneemann (2010). “Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises”, State Univ of New York Pr

Carolee Schneemann

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“For Yesterday was once To-morrow.”

Source : Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden (1693). “The Satires, Translated Into English Verse by J. Dryden ... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus Made English by Mr. Dryden”
“Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.”
“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
“Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.”
“New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.”
“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

Source : Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.163, Del Rey
“Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?”
“We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.”

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