M ELLE

To know what people really think, observe what they do, not what they say.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

[…] we were still making ourselves in an unsettled world. And the world settled for darkness, while you settled things for yourself.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

Oh, to be rid of my fixed ideas of how things “ought” to be—

Women are taught to see their bodies in parts and to evaluate each part separately. Breasts, feet, hips, waistline, neck, eyes, nose, complexion, hair, and so on –each in turn is submitted to an anxious, fretful almost despairing scrutiny.