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Olivia Laing
“Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you.”
Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing
“We're so often told that art can't really change anything. But I think it can. It shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. It makes plain inequalities, and it offers other ways of living.”
Olivia Laing , Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing
“The stopped time of a painting, say, or the drawn-out minutes and compressed years of a novel, in which it is possible to see patterns and consequences that are otherwise invisible.”
Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Patti Smith
“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.”
Patti Smith, Just Kids

Patti Smith
“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”
Patti Smith, Just Kids

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