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