Marije de Wit

“We think that there is not a politics that does not begin in our desiring cells. We think that this corporeal surplus, the movement beyond our biographies and our perceived or administrated limits, is the force that makes and changes worlds.”
― Lisa Robertson, Matthew Stadler, REVOLUTION: a reader

“(About Georgia O'Keeffe) At the Art Students League in New York one of her fellow students advised her that, since he would be a great painter and she would end up teaching painting in a girs' school, any work of hers was less important than modeling for him. Another painted over her work to show her how the Impressionists did trees. She had not before heard how the Impressionists did trees and she did not much care.

At twenty-four she left all those opinions behind and went for the first time to live in Texas, where there were no trees to paint and no one to tell her how not to paint them. In Texas there was only the horizon she craved. In Texas she had her sister Claudia with her for a while, and in the late afternoons they would walk away from town and toward the horizon and watch the evening star come out. "That evening star fascinated me," she wrote. "It was in some way very exciting to me. My sister had a gun, and as we walked she would throw bottles into the air and shoot as many as she could before they hit the ground. I had nothing but to walk into nowhere and the wide sunset space with the star. Ten watercolors were made from that star.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“Most movements have a fixed concept towards which they advance, we move away from all fixed concepts in order to advance.”
― Mina Loy

“To turn from this institution
'in the position of not-believing:
'This would be the utopian turn.
'I can't do it.
'So I pierce utopia
'with divine boredom.
And then the dog - for it was a dog who spoke'
gently ambled off
betwixt black trunks of trees
and I am going to tell you that this dog glanced back in simple sadness
said

'Soon there will be only society'.”
― Lisa Robertson, Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip