"In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense……" — Bat for Lashes
"In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted."
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19 Quotes by Bat for Lashes
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I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going…
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It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things…
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low
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I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.
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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who…
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people…
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup…
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The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence.…
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When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled…
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely,…
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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