Maia

“Belief; a mental trick to soften the landscape.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“I am speaking naturally of that world which is peculiar to the big cities, the world of men and women whose last drop of juice has been squeezed out by the machine—the martyrs of modern progress. It is this mass of bones and collar buttons which the painter finds so difficult to put flesh on.”
― Henry Miller

“Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors. It’s this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.”
― Robert Persig

“...All this academic shit out there about The Body as if it were a thing apart...Anorexia arises not from narcissism, a fixation with your body, but a sense of its aloneness:...By recognizing the aloneness of your body it is possible to reach outside…, escape the predetermined world. ‘Anorexia is an active stance. The creation of an involuted body. How to abstract oneself from food fluxes and the mechanical sign of the meal”
― Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia