Pipilotti Rist Quotes

#1. Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.

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#2. When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within

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#3. Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

PJ Harvey

#4. I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

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#5. God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.

Bob Goff

#6. Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

John Green

#7. Women are less interested in watching two people having sex than in understanding how and what these people are feeling when they are having sex. If you kiss someone, you want to know what the other person is feeling. So I want to find pictures that express what the other feels.

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#8. The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face of almost every rock the lichens grew, yellow, rusty-brown, yellow-green, like patches of dirty paint daubed on the stone.

Edward Abbey

#9. We bring God glory by loving other believers.

Rick Warren

#10. First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

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#11. I do a lot of garbage.

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#12. He'd always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn't a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.

Terry Pratchett

#13. In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms. From

A.A. Milne

#14. The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Bernard Baruch

#15. Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

Pedro Almodovar

#16. In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#17. When people go at war they cheapen things.

Michael Pitt

#18. When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Mark Twain

#19. Should one be for or against pornography? I prefer to propose images of sexuality rather than to analyze the pros and the cons of pornography. Women are interested in erotics and sexuality, so I want to use my energy to propose images about that.

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#20. Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

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#21. In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.

Walter Scott