Exhibitionist Quotes

“Guilty of this furtive diarism. But where can all this knowledge—these feelings—go? When I think about letting on, letting people in on anything, I also think: Get over yourself. Where else but here can all this—these feelings—go?”
― Peter Mendelsund, Exhibitionist: 1 Journal, 1 Depression, 100 Paintings

“F. incorporated a line into his wedding vows: "Love is not a feeling; love is put to the test." Though Wittgenstein meant something quite technical here (he was making a point about grammar), it struck me that the way in which F. understood this sentence—love being meaningless until tested—was also correct. When I'd wash my mother's dishes and fix her computer, or lift her walker over the saddles of doorways, I'd think of this line proudly, like I had passed.”
― Peter Mendelsund, Exhibitionist: 1 Journal, 1 Depression, 100 Paintings

“Depression's biggest effect, in my experience, is to render the sufferer mute. No matter what one says, nothing can be said. No one can know you, access you through normal channels. You are alien, cut off. Language completely impoverished. No, totally bankrupt.”
― Peter Mendelsund, Exhibitionist: 1 Journal, 1 Depression, 100 Paintings