47 quotes found
“Art, and sadness, which last forever.”
“People don't like it when you say real things.”
“In the face of immense tragedyyet againunexpected beauty.”
“But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old.”
“In the face of immense tragedy—yet again—unexpected beauty.”
“I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.”
“Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die.”
“I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.”
“No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.”
“. . . buzzed up by the knowledge that none of my family knew where I was, who I was with nor when I'd be home again. I didn't even know exactly who I was with or when I'd be home again or where hom...”
“My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched by black holes in the universe. She describes herself as an optimist but she worries...”
“There's a table with some catalogues and a guest book in the corner; there are artworks. Today, I need so badly to be inspired by them, even though I hate that word: inspiration. It crops up in too...”
“How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.”
“I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.”
“There really isn't much wrong with me,' I say, 'it's just that, well, I'm not like other people; I don't want the things they want. And this is not right, I mean, in other people's eyes, and I feel...”
“So it's as if,' I say, 'I'm okay in my own bones, but I know that my bones aren't living up to other people's version of what a life should be, and I feel a little crushed by that, to be honest, a ...”
“But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered.”
“It happens so seldom; I must catch and keep this slender yearning, a rare beetle in a jam-jar trap. But mustering will is not the same as wanting. I lie in the garden and think about all the footst...”
“And yet, here I am. Perceiving everything that is wonderful to be proportionately difficult; everything that is possible an elaborate battle to achieve. My happy life was never enough for me. I alw...”
“After college, I started working in the gallery and found myself surrounded by a whole new set of people who had not yet grown accustomed to my antisocial tendencies, who had not yet learned to exp...”
“I can't remember the name of the piece, or the artist. Maybe it wasn't even an artwork. Why must I automatically assume that every strange object is a sculpture, that every public display of unorth...”
“I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.”
“How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career out of it.”
“Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?”
“You can't dance to paintings. This is something Ben said, during one of our White Cube conversations, back when I was still wrong about him. He said it even though, at the time, he was desperately ...”
