“She’d opened the book she bought today. She’d started to read, from the beginning, quite quietly, out loud. It was the best… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time:… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Time travel is real, Daniel said. We do it all the time. Moment to moment, minute to minute.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Or perhaps it is just that George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Elisabeth had been listening to the programme in the bath. She'd switched the radio off after it and wondered if she'd be able to… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could taste it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“...he had simply typed the words something beautiful into the Google images box. Up came a picture of some leaves against the sun. A… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are? — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling.… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
