Michael Arden Quotes

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.

I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition.

A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.

The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.

I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.

I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.

If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any problem at all." "I don't think it's that simple." "Sure it is." "The earth moved," she said softly. "That has to be more than bodies communicating.

I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest.

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.