“To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.” HumanityPowerStrengthResilience Author:Hannah Gadsby
“Ironically, I believe Picasso was right. I believe we could paint a better world if we learned to see it from all perspectives, as many perspectives as we possibly could. Because diversity is strength. Difference is a teacher. Fear difference, you learn nothing. Picasso’s mistake was his arrogance. He assumed he could represent all of the perspectives. And our mistake was to invalidate the perspective of a 17-year-old girl because we believed her potential would never equal his. Hindsight is a gift. Stop wasting my time. A 17-year-old girl is just never, ever, ever in her prime! Ever. I am in my prime. Would you test your strength out on me? There is no way anyone would dare test their strength out on me because you all know there is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.” FeminismStrengthSexismRape CultureArt HistoryRebuildPicasso Author:Hannah Gadsby
“Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.” ArtPainPaintingBrotherDepressionConnectionArtists QuotesArtists LifeVan GoghArt Saves Author:Hannah Gadsby
“It was clear that neither of us really mattered to the world, we were both just caught in the crossfire of a process neither of us understood. The difference between us was that he'd been promised the world, and I had not, which made him the underdog, whereas I was just a dog.” Worth Book:Ten Steps to Nanette Source: Ten Steps to Nanette
“So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body” is our breath, because breath is the only thing that all human bodies experience and as such, it is something we all must share, not just with each other, but, in one way or another, with all living things on earth. To this day, I still can’t think of a better way of truly breaking us free from the visual rut that the canon of Western art has left us languishing in, than the breath of an Indigenous Australian woman.” ArtThe BodyWestern Art Book:Ten Steps to Nanette Source: Ten Steps to Nanette