Heather Rose > Quotes

“Grief was a threshold thing that lived at the heart of the inevitable.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“Artists run their fingers over the fabric of eternity.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“Marina Abramovic had brought something new into the city. She had made of herself a rock in the center of a town where everything moved and had been moving en masse for hundreds of years.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“You are not dead. You are simply ahead on the path. When my time comes, I will be ready and you will be there.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“It was easy to gain strength from chaos because it had about it the abyss--always so tantalizing--as the heroin addicts knew. But the journey to the abyss was short-lived. The harder road was to draw strength and not power. To gain footing not in the wild uncertainty of immortality but the abiding knowledge of mortality.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“There’s two of them in a caravan just near the terminal. They’re like Marg Simpson’s sisters. They’ve got these lines on their faces like a couple of Shar Peis, as though they’ve smoked a billion cigarettes. Their curries are fantastic. They make it all onsite, sitting on crates peeling onions. It’s another bit of the channel that we’ll lose when the bridge opens.”
― Heather Rose, Bruny

“Love was a wasteland. That's the way it went, Danica knew. "You want to be a strong woman? she asked the visitors who wandered by, oblivious to her. "Then you will never find a man who treats you as an equal. You have to play the little games. Oh, giggling, cooking, making them think they have such a huge cock every time they put it near you. The truth is that men are the empty ones. And women are meant to fill them up. I could count on a few fingers the men I ever truly admired. Give them long enough and men are always disappointing.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“This was what happened to Tasmanian children. A lot of us left the island in search of bigger dreams. And then, sometimes, we came back.”
― Heather Rose, Bruny

“Art is really a sort of sport. To master the leap is essential. It is the game of the leap. Practice, practice, practice, then leap. The starting point may be different for each, but the goal is the same. Do something worthwhile before you die.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“It's hard to imagine a man more capable of living in his own cocoon than Levin. Art creates a certain familiarity with loneliness. And possibly with pain. Physical, mental, it doesn't really matter. It's all a catalyst. I don't like to admit that because it's depressing, but in truth pain is the stone that art sharpens itself on time after time.”
― Heather Rose

“Coincidence, I've heard, is God's way of being discreet. But convergence is more than that. It is something that, once set in motion, will have an unknown effect. It is a human condition to admire hindsight. I always thought foresight was so much more useful.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“I am only interested in art that can change the ideology of society”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“He would eat a woman's confidence.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love

“I have observed that the opportunities to chew on failure are as myriad as fork designs. In each there is a little death, and the first response to such a death is usually anger.”
― Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love