Leanne Shapton quotes

“The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.”
-- Leanne Shapton

Source : Leanne Shapton (2012). “Swimming Studies”, p.188, Penguin

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“I suppose everyone is looking for love, and we live in a culture where we have opportunities to fall in love far more than once. A person might go through the dissolution of a major love or a minor love, but the frictions and feelings are very primal - heartbreak, longing, jealousy, anger - etc. People often say love is universal - which it is - so the loss of love naturally is too.”
-- Leanne Shapton

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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“In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.”

Source : "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

“You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race.”

“I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!”

“I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press

“Fear is stronger than arms.”

“Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.”

“You have to trust your body to take care of you.”

“Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.”

Source : "My 12 pairs of legs". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

“There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves”

Source : Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”, Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott

“Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2006.