Emma Bull Quotes

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in.

Rocks are space, and space is illusion.

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

Like a shadow, I am and I am not.

I can connect Nothing with nothing

In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

There's no lack of void.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.