Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell

Wer nicht vor der Regression gelebt hat, weiss nichts von der Süsse des Lebens.

— Peter Sloterdijk

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The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

— Rebecca Solnit

Never explain, never complain.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I use the stars to find you.

You are lovely as despair.

— Odysseus Elytis

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In my later work, the person who is navigating the space, his or her experience becomes the content. So, the whole subject-object relationship is reversed. The content is you. If you don't walk into the work and engage with it, there isn't any content.

— Richard Serra

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First you have to train your creative muscles. Go to movies, concerts and museums. You have to train both your body and mind. Everyday is a fight.

— Tadao Andō

Letzte Nachrichten; mit Peter Nießing, 01.02.1982

Der SPD-Vorsitzende Brandt erklärte [...] die wichtigsten Entscheidungen seien gefallen. Einzelheiten gab Brandt nicht bekannt.

— Peter Nießing

Die Funktion der Kunst besteht darin, gegen die Verpflichtung zu kämpfen.

— Amedeo Modigliani

I have had to learn the simplest things last.

— Charles Olson

Your true heart lives in your memory. It is nourished by the images it contains — that's how it lives.

— Haruki Murakami

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

— Jack Kerouac

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Richard Serra | Rotterdam Horizontal 5 | 2016

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The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same.

— Richard Serra

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, then everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.

— William Blake

Richard Serra | Double Elliptic Torsion | 1998

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I exist outside of your perception of me.

The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

— Virginia Woolf

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Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

— Mae Jemison

I am trying to walk into my own heart.

— Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick

Klärung des Kampfbildes in Kürze zu erwarten.

Sad are only those who understand.

— Arab Proverb

On the set of Stalker; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979

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You see, the artist lives by perception. So that what we make, is what we feel. The making of something is not just construction. it's all about feeling.

— Agnes Martin

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Art is not always about pretty things. It's about who we are, what happened to us, and how our lives are affected.

— Elizabeth Broun

I am stronger than myself.

— Clarice Lispector

Ich muss Sie jetzt noch mal bitten, dass Sie endlich zum Thema reden. [...] Ich mag das nicht, das muss ich Ihnen offen sagen. Das ist einfach unangenehm. [...] Das ist ein Ruf zur Tagesordnung. [...] Wenn Sie solche drittklassigen Figuren hier einladen, ist einfach alles vorbei, verstehen Sie? Ich bin unverschämt, weil Sie so niveaulos sind, dass es eine Zumutung ist, in Ihrer Gesellschaft über irgendetwas zu diskutieren, was ein intellektuelles Profil erreicht. Ich habe hier, solange Sie da sind, nichts verloren. Das ist einfach eine Unterbietung des guten Geschmacks und jeglichen Anstandes, in Hinsicht auf Artikulation und in Hinblick auf intellektuelle Selbstachtung [...].

— Peter Sloterdijk

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I've learned, sometimes in very difficult situations, to operate confidently in paradox.

— J. Michael Martinez

[Bangs; as always.]

Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Metropolis Ruhr vs. True Korea

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

— Marc Aurel

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

— Rabindranath Tagore

To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.

― Gregg Braden