"Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness."

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Source : David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.9, Vintage

David Abram

#Eye Quotes #Skins Quotes #Ears Quotes

“It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again!”
“By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.”

Source : Nicholas Negroponte (2015). “Being Digital”, p.230, Vintage
“Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me,O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.”

Source : 1740 'In Temptation', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.
“I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There's no gallery show or book or film. It's pointless. Which hopefully means something.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
“Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.”
“If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.”
“My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.”

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