#me

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case. ↗

— Alva Noto

#always #arrange #case #expresses #hard

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically. ↗

— Alva Noto

#art #different #ever #experiments #finally

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#concern #decided #frankly #growth #had

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. ↗

— Alva Noto

#alone #closer #disturbing #express #expressed

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic? ↗

— Alva Noto

#coincidence #come #creativity #general #like

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy. ↗

— Alva Noto

#because #big #cannot #consume #energy

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bereavement #cares #confusion #curing #despair

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#closeness #cure #distance #heals #know

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#god #gospel #handicapped #hold #mentally

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bit #church #corporation #culture #evangelical