“The rabbit’s beating heart is quite close to the sensations caused by pure cinema.”
—Germaine Dulac

“In Photography I can never deny that the thing has been there. There is a superimposition here: of reality, and of the past, which does not refer either to Art or Communication, but rather to Reference . . . Photography's noeme will therefore be: ‘That-has-been’ [Ça-a-été].”
—Roland Barthes

"If I ask 'Have you eaten all of the apple?' and you answer flatly 'Yes', then what will your response be if I walk over to look and say, 'But you haven’t eaten it all; you’ve left the core, and the stem and the seeds to waste'?"
—Stanley Cavell

‘The imposition of gender binarism and with it, sexism—is constituted in and through the self—same Western mechanisms in which white supremacism—or racism—is constituted. In other words, the sexual and racial orders operate in a co-dependent manner to achieve the economic success of the colony.’
—Río Paraná

"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."
―John Cage

"The earth was ductile and unstable. In the eyes of the new settlers, it seemed like a living being that resurfaced periodically to show them their fragility."
—Patricia Dauder

"The starting point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory."
—Antonio Gramsci

"We dwell in the belly of the beast and we ourselves feed it while we live. We will never succeed in wounding it if we are not prepared to run the risk of wounding ourselves."
—Santiago López Petit

"Artistic creation rests not on what is, but on what might be; not on the actual, but on the possible."
—Rudolf Steiner

“And when one pays spontaneous attention free of obligations, when one pays attention, the face says almost everything.”
—Clarice Lispector

"Beauty exists only in autonomy. No work that fails to express the intelligence of the possible can be a masterpiece. Poetry is a bridge cast over the abyss of nothingness to allow the sharing of different imaginations and to free singularities."
—Franco Berardi ‘Bifo’

"Bitch, I’m a work of art
I’m the Mona Lisa smoking tate"
―La Zowi, Work of Art