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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."
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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."
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"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."
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"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."
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"....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia-by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best. (tr Jowett)"
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"I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism."
Purpose
"My works are an imitation of my own past and present."
Creation
"I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body."
Body
"At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution."
Art
"Body experience... is the centre of creation."
Experience
"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole."
Achievement
"I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not."
Work
"Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid."
Work
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