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“That's how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something.
You have a wish.
You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.”
― The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations
You have a wish.
You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.”
― The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations
“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.”
― Haunted
Mrs Berry: No ... we are the warring what's-their-names families of Romeo and Juliet.”
― Haunted
“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.”
― Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts
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.”
― Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts
“(133) Night and music. - The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods [...]: in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight.”
― A Nietzsche Reader
― A Nietzsche Reader
“I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalised and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).”
― Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts
― Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts
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