Doris Salcedo Quotes

#1. Every 2 days we create as much information as we did up to 2003.

Eric Schmidt

#2. Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

Peter Drucker

#4. Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards

#5. The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics.

C.S. Lewis

#6. My health is fine.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#7. To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

R. Scott Bakker

#8. When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence.

Doris Salcedo

#9. And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

Doris Salcedo

#10. Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Doris Salcedo

#11. In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

Doris Salcedo

#12. Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

Byron Katie

#13. I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Roscoe Mitchell