Every mouth you've ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you've ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don't mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth. Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? You're here now, welcome home.
— Warsan Shire
Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.
I feel I've done my part. I think I contributed something, in whatever way I did. I'm at peace in that respect.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Never create based upon what you think other people might like. Create because you like it.
You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: What are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out?
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; while working at Haus Esters, about 1927/28.
Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.
— Bill Bullard
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Robert Barry | Closed Gallery | 1969
But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
— Carl Sagan
Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
[...] und ich möchte Sie, so gut ich es kann, bitten, lieber Herr, Geduld zu haben gegen alles Ungelöste in Ihrem Herzen und zu versuchen, die Fragen selbst liebzuhaben wie verschlossene Stuben und wie Bücher, die in einer sehr fremden Sprache geschrieben sind. Forschen Sie jetzt nicht nach den Antworten, die Ihnen nicht gegeben werden können, weil Sie sie nicht leben könnten. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
