Carrie Mae Weems Quotes

Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

Carrie Mae Weems

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• There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • World
  • Gifts

• I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Men
  • Singing
  • Gold

• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Need

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Faithful
  • Sinner
  • Despised

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Imagination

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Age

• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Real
  • Dad

• You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Learn
  • Alive

• Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Loss

• Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Angry
  • Attacks

• I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.

  

  Paige Davis
  • Year
  • Just
  • Three

• And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Believe
  • Control
  • Government

• I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Like

• Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People

• The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Girl

• Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Life
  • Power
  • Words

• Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

  

  Cennino Cennini
  • World
  • Art
  • Drawing

• I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Lyrics

• Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Work
  • Art
  • Responsibility