Author Profile
Ali Smith
1962 • Scottish • Writer
49
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 49 quotesI really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.— Ali Smith
You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.— Ali Smith
When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.— Ali Smith
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.— Ali Smith