"Art is always an exchange, like love, whose giving and taking can be a complex and wounding matter; according to Michelangelo."
–– Ali Smith (b. 1962), Scottish academic, author, journalist, and playwright
Source: Val McDermid. Still Life. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020; unpaginated. (Ali Smith. Artful.)
via 2020 Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook, 2022 p. 23.
"That's what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again."
–– Ali Smith (b. 1962), Scottish writer
"Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is, it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination all coming together."
–– Ali Smith (b. 1962), Scottish academic, author, journalist, and playwright
Source: Olivia Laing. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, p. 244-5
