"I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work is going to be exhibited. And since some of the work I do is created onsite, it requires a different type of space, versus the smaller drawings or more subject-oriented work. So that the context becomes important."

-- Shahzia Sikander

#Thinking Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Space Quotes

“Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.”
“Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.”
“Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.”
“No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.”
“Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.”
“What would Kathy say if she knew I let the whole crew eat those Oreos when they never did eat their carrot sticks (which I had so firmly required as prerequisite)? All three of my kids were probably heading for disease (not enough veggies) and jail (not enough discipline).”

Source : Dean Hughes (2005). “All Moms Go to Heaven: Reflections”, Deseret Book Company
“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”
“As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.”

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