It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.
I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?
Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
