Posts tagged Quotes

Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me, I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it’ll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.
John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings, 1949
Even books, word-things that should be judged by their content, fascinate me as objects. I confess I have many books in my library that I have never read nor had the intention of reading. I want them because their sheer presence represents a yearning, a mood, a love, and yes, an act of self-preservation. When my eyes scan my library, the typefaces of the titles, the textures of the covers, and their imagined weight give me a moment very like the pleasure of reading.
The Urge To Make Things, Leo Lionni, 1991
To look and to listen requires the work of attention, selection, reappropriation, a way of making one’s own film, one’s own text, one’s own installation out of what the artist has presented.
Jacques Rancière excerpt from Art and Theory After Socialism
Jill Magid, The Kosinski Quotes: My Sensitivity, Silkscreen on Rives BKF paper [the system is based on the secret service practice of highlighting text to be erased, and my own personal system of marking]

Jill Magid, The Kosinski Quotes: My Sensitivity, Silkscreen on Rives BKF paper

[the system is based on the secret service practice of highlighting text to be erased, and my own personal system of marking]

Mel Bochner, Notecard (No thought exists…), 1969, ink on notecard [+]

Mel Bochner, Notecard (No thought exists…), 1969, ink on notecard [+]