Niki de Saint Phalle quotes

“Music is the softest cushion in the world.”
-- Niki de Saint Phalle

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“I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times”
-- Niki de Saint Phalle

Source : Pontus Hultén, Niki de Saint-Phalle (1992). “Niki de Saint Phalle: Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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“I love the round, the curves, the undulation, the world is round, the world is a breast”
-- Niki de Saint Phalle

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“Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.”
-- Niki de Saint Phalle

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“Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."”

Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2

“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press

“I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.”

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

“Canned music is like audible wallpaper.”

“Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.”

“Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!”