Mine And Tatsumi Quotes & Sayings

What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be. — Alain Badiou

However objective one's analytical approach may seem, [Some dude] argues, we must recognize the myth of objectivity as another rhetoric, another metadiscourse fashioning our sense of 'reality.' Although avant-gardism has long been believed to be a metafictional rhetoric displacing reality, we must not forget that it is a framework of reality that has been constructed rhetorically--whether its rhetoric is ontological or consumerist or creative-masochistic. — Takayuki Tatsumi

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions. — H.L. Mencken

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. — Jackson Pollock

A man shouldn't go crying like that, people will think you're weak. — Ryuhei Tamura

There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers. — Tatsumi Hijikata

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet — Tatsumi Hijikata

that there is some place better than our earthly home - a space where we are accepted no matter what, a banquet table where we are called by name and not ridiculed for being different. — Alice J. Wisler

When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves. — Tatsumi Hijikata

The story entitled 'Good-Bye' is probably Tatsumi's most well-known work, and I think it's a good representation of many of Tatsumi's skills and stylistic tendencies. — Adrian Tomine

The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil — Tatsumi Hijikata

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here. — Tatsumi Hijikata

I regret all of my books. — Zora Neale Hurston

We don't attack any veteran, at all, ever, for their service record. We thank them. And the fact that somebody wanted to do that for political gain, shows the desperation of which some people unfortunately in the Republican Party want to keep and seize power. — Matt Shea

The rat gave birth. Six little ones ... cute baby rats ... None of them are like Hitler. — Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Their relationship consisted
In discussing if it existed. — Thom Gunn