Ellen Gallagher quotes
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“At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.”
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“The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.”
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“I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.”
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“Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.”
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“The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.”
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“This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.”
-- Ellen Gallagher
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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Source : Interview with William Van Meter, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.
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“He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.”
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“I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.”
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