“Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.” MenStillsOrderCultureFantasySilentMalesBoundsObsessionCommandMakersTiedSymbolicImposing Book:Visual and Other Pleasures Source: Visual and Other Pleasures
“I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.” KnowsStillsKnow HowObsessionInsane Author:Graham Nash
“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.” KnowsMeanStillsPaintingPaintPrivilegeProfessionObsession Author:Alice Neel