Mona Hatoum quotes
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“I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.”
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“I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.”
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“Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.”
-- Mona Hatoum
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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“Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.”
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“It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.”
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“I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.”
Source : "Learning How To Be King". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2000.
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