Cixous Art Quotes & Sayings

I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place. — Michel Foucault

he had so long ceased to have any intercourse with the world, that he looked upon himself as dead. The — Alexandre Dumas

I know 'What's Going On?' has practically become a catchphrase around here," I said to Jenna, "but seriously. What is going on? — Rachel Hawkins

It is easy to love and sing one's love. That is something I am extremely good at doing. Indeed, that is my art. But to be loved, that is true greatness. Being loved, letting oneself be loved, entering the magic and dreadful circle of generosity, receiving gifts, finding the right thank-you's, that is love's real work. — Helene Cixous

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow. — Henry Green

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person. — Robert Barry

The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are foreign to us. "The thing" does not happen here, it happens somewhere else, in a strange and foreign country. The writer has a foreign origin; we do not know the particular nature of these foreigners, but we feel they feel there is an appeal, that someone is calling them back. — Helene Cixous

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. — Henry David Thoreau