Eve Ensler Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Cancer, Thinking

  "In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

• Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, War, Thinking

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

• If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Fighting, And Love

  Source: www.elle.com

• This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.

  Eve Ensler

  Song, Art, Fighting

  Source: www.fanpop.com

• Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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