"We abide by cultural directives that urge us: clarify each thought, each experience, so that you can..."

“We abide by cultural directives that urge us: clarify each thought, each experience, so that you can cull from them their single, dominant meaning and, in the process, become a responsible adult who knows what he or she thinks. But what I try to show is the opposite: how at every moment, the world presents us with a composition in which a multitude of meanings and realities are available, and you are able to swim, lucid and self-contained, in that turbulent sea of multiplicity.”

- Richard Foreman, quoted by Maggie Nelson in The Art of Cruelty (via arabellesicardi)