"I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!"

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Source : "Taiye Selasi: 'I'm very willing to follow my imagination'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

Taiye Selasi

#Beautiful Quotes #Home Quotes #Dark Quotes

“I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.”
“I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.”
“Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.”

Source : PlanetOut Inc. Interview, 2004.
“Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.”
“Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.”

Source : John Denham, “Cooper's Hill”
“The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.”
“Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth.”
“I think it would be really rotten to tell boys that schools won't cater for them properly because men have unquestionably been dominant for thousands of years. A feminism that deliberately neglects boys is immoral in my opinion.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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