Emily

“The Artwork as Misunderstanding
There is a crisis with regard to Representation. They are looking for Meaning as if it was a thing. As if it was a girl, required to take her panties off as if she would want to do so, as soon as the true interpreter comes along.
As if there was something to take off.”
― Marlene Dumas, Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts

“Stories give people the feeling that there is meaning, that there is ultimately an order lurking behind the incredible confusion of appearances and phenomena that surrounds them. This order is what people require more than anything else.”
― Wim Wenders, The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations

“Making plans. - To make plans and project designs brings with it many good sensations; and whoever had the strength to be nothing but a forger of plans his whole life long would be a very happy man: but he would occasionally have to make a rest from this activity by carrying out a plan - and then comes the vexation and the sobering up.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, A Nietzsche Reader

“Mr Berry: We are not childhood sweethearts, we are not in the first flush of youth, we are not Romeo and Juliet.
Mrs Berry: No ... we are the warring what's-their-names families of Romeo and Juliet.”
― Edna O'Brien, Haunted