Maresca Textiles Quotes & Sayings

When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer ... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience ... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known. — Jill Soloway

Come along inside ... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place. — Kenneth Grahame

It is a way I have of driving off the spleen — Herman Melville

The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude, as when you attend a funeral and notice that it's being poorly done. — Donald Barthelme

things: and the vanity of praise, and the inconstancy — Marcus Aurelius

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. — Camille Paglia

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated. — Eric Clapton

When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics. — Jimenez Lai