Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"The body speaks in ways language cannot capture."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Writing is always a material practice with consequences."Haraway, Donna
"We must learn to compose differently with the more-than-human world."Haraway, Donna
"Art is the language we use when words fail us."Ahmed, Sara
"Art disturbs the comfortable and comforts the disturbed."Ahmed, Sara
"Disidentification is a survival strategy and a creative practice."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Affect precedes and exceeds language in its political potential."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Performance is neither innate nor fixed; it is learned and revisable."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Performance reveals the constructed nature of all identity."Muñoz, José Esteban
"We are all always performing our way through the world."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Performance is how we testify to our own existence."Muñoz, José Esteban
"The minoritarian speaks the unspeakable through performance."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Performance is how we make ourselves legible and illegible simultaneously."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Difference and multiplicity should be celebrated rather than reduced to sameness."Braidotti, Rosi
"Art and science are not opposed; they are the two eyes of human understanding."Law, John
"Art is the attempt to capture the ineffable and make it manifest."Law, John
"Art disrupts the normative order and opens possibilities for alternative ways of being"Grosz, Elizabeth
"The body is not a canvas upon which culture writes; it is a site of active creation"Grosz, Elizabeth
"The body speaks in ways that exceed language"Grosz, Elizabeth
"We must attend to the materiality of culture"Grosz, Elizabeth
"The body is a site of political struggle and creative expression"Grosz, Elizabeth
"The body is always already cultural and always something more than cultural"Grosz, Elizabeth
"Art is the language of what words cannot express."Ahmed, Sara
"Art is the proof that human life is more than mere survival."Ahmed, Sara
"We must be multispecies storytellers, not masters of nature."Haraway, Donna
"The practice of storytelling is a way of taking responsibility for the worlds we make."Haraway, Donna
"Art is a way of making the invisible visible."Callon, Michel
"Architecture shapes how we inhabit and understand the world around us."Grosz, Elizabeth
"The smooth and the striated are different ways of organizing space and experience."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Space is lived and inhabited rather than merely geometrical."Grosz, Elizabeth