Jan Peacock quotes
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“An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.”
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“The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.”
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“In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head...”
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“Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.”
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“It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.”
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“What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?”
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“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.”
-- Jan Peacock
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Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.
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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
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Source : "There Are Worse Things I Could Do". Book by Adrienne Barbeau, 2006.
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“A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.”