Etel Adnan

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

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

Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.