#text

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real. ↗

— Tim Burton

#actor #always #as far as #brilliant #edge

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance. ↗

— John Cale

#being #enjoy #freedom #give #greater

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#funny #get #how #intimate #text

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#context #involved #larger #lost #sometimes

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#beaten #being #car #five #group

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#always #contexts #country #historical #important

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#audience #certain #contexts #depending #i

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#could #history #human #human blood #jot