Activities of Daily Living Quotes

“Later, reflecting on the project, the Artist said the year he’d spent in self-imposed imprisonment was much easier. Alone in his cage, he could focus on art. Being tied to another human being, he said, was too much life.”
― Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

“Grief is like watching television.”
― Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

“I pace when I give interviews. . . . They always start the same way: Do you think of yourself as an artist or a black artist? Lately I’ve been answering: I think of myself as a virus.”
― Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

“always had when confronted with an ordeal: the possibility that the experience would prove useful for a project. She could endure anything as long as it could be bent, in recollection, to her design, the mercenary impulse as coping mechanism.”
― Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

“You can’t waste time with someone for whom it doesn’t come naturally. There was an art to it.”
― Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

“Holding absolutely still was its strategy for preventing a total mental breakdown.”
― Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

“According to the Artist’s wife, his manner of talking, even in Chinese, falls somewhere between that of an eight-year-old and a philosopher.”
― Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living