"People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an ar..." — Ali Smith

I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.

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.

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.

I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.