Positions of the Sun Quotes

“Ambiguities everywhere should be collected as evidence of ambivalence.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun

“But daily life and art occupy different space-times; a museum, a concert hall, a page of text, an art gallery are more likely to be experienced as refuges from daily life than as its venue.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun

“The work of art offers an experience of contradictions and incommensurabilities – these are much better than truths.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun

“The work of art offers an experience of contradictions
and incommensurabilities – these are much better than truths.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun

“Just as it is dreaming rather than the so-called latent (or repressed) content of a dream that harbors the dream‘s real mystery, and just as it is the social relations of production rather than the commodity they produce that remains in thrall to capitalism, so it is that the relationships and interactions of all the elements of a work of art hold its meaning. (…) The work of art offers an experience of contradictions and incommensurabilities – these are much better than truths.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun