Agnes Aasmaa

“But in actuality, as we all know, things as they are and as they have been, in the arts as in a hundred other areas, are stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class and, above all, male. The fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education--education understood to include everything that happens to us from the moment we enter this world of meaningful symbols, signs, and signals.”
― Linda Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If we’re not supposed to dance, Why all this music?”
― Gregory Orr

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays