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"Love costs us much, but we still need it. Wisdom costs us much, but we still seek it. Faith costs us much, but we still practice it. Life costs us much, but we still desire it."
"Sacrifice and "self both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that."
"A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both."
"Life demands death to self."
"I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference."
Explore more quotes by Alva Noto
"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."
"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."
"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."
"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."
"Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence."
"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case."
"Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly."
"I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically."
"The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?"
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