Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
“Ai Weiwei’s Year of Living Dangerously.” Art in America, September 2009, 28.
2000-09, 2009
Interview at the 1989 Australian Grand Prix, November 1989 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6brLntJE8s
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
“Ai Weiwei’s Year of Living Dangerously.” Art in America, September 2009, 28.
2000-09, 2009
“I've been sleeping through my life
Now I'm waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine”
Juliana Hatfield (1967) American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
Sunshine
In Exile Deo (2004)
Context: I've been sleeping through my life
Now I'm waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine
I have never been ecstatic
Had a flower but it never bloomed
In the darkness of my wasted youth
It was hiding in the shadows
Learning to become invisible
Uncover me
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Apocalypse (1930)
Context: What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his "soul." Man wants his physical fulfillment first and foremost, since now, once and once only, he is in the flesh and potent. For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human soul, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.
Billy Joe Shaver (1939) American singer-songwriter
Billy Joe Shaver: Outlaw Country's Real Deal (2014)
Lana Turner (1921–1995) American actress
On the role of humor in her personal life, p. 10.
Autobiography
Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) Greek poet and diplomat
Source: "Greek poet's odyssey", 17 Jan 1964, LIFE Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 3, Page 75.
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Actually said by Giorgos Seferis
Misattributed