36 Quotes by Etel Adnan

Terror is our collective failure. Life is nature's triumph.

Writing is drawing, drawing is writing. Because it's the same gesture. They're close already.

Dear soul,am I only because I have been?

Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing with numbers, but not counting. Silence demands the nature of night, even in full day, it demands shadows.

It is a sentiment of tremendous truth and simplicity, yet tremendously difficult for the mind to metabolize — we remain material creatures, spiritually sundered by the fact of our borrowed atoms, which we will each return to the universe, to the stardust that made us, despite our best earthly efforts.

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.

I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough,

I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.