Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more – the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible. Ali Smith Read Quote
What’s the point of art, of any art, if it doesn’t let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are? Ali Smith Read Quote
The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it – the word, the phrase, the sentence, the syntax, the paragraph, and the way the heart moves when you read it. Ali Smith Read Quote
When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language. Ali Smith Read Quote
What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this? Ali Smith Read Quote
My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women. Ali Smith Read Quote
I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren’t: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world. Ali Smith Read Quote
I have a theory, now – that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art. Ali Smith Read Quote
When we meet a work of art, there’s something about that encounter that isn’t fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment. Ali Smith Read Quote
