Radka Donnell quotes
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“My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.”
-- Radka DonnellSource : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns
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“My quiltmaking is sandwiched, moved about, displaced between other activities and the crosscurrents of people's movements inside the place I live.”
-- Radka DonnellSource : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns
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“I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.”
-- Radka DonnellSource : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns
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Source : Abigail Scott Duniway (2000). “"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper”
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“The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.”
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Source : 1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco