"The body should not just be something you……" — Jenny Hval
"The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or not pretty. The shape of it is boring."
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Jenny Hval
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15 Quotes by Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval has 15 quotes on this site.
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There's a great relationship between pop music and the way the body could be seen from the inside - when…
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Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.
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Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the…
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Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've…
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Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own…
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Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if…
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If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people…
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I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it…
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I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything…
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Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to…
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I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always…
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When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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