top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Books quotes
"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
Explore more quotes by Laurie Anderson
"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."
"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."
"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
"I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work."
"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."
"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."
bottom of page