Quotes About Boundaries

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem.

Ciertas personas, en el afán de querer construir un mundo donde ninguna amenaza externa pueda penetrar, aumentan exageradamente sus defensas contra el exterior y dejan su interior desguarnecido.

Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.

He [Aziz Ansari] was just another overeager guy trying to talk a woman into sex, viewing her limits as a challenge he needed to overcome in order to score. What he did was not unusual and was not, in truth, newsworthy; yet that was the very reason it was news. Because it extended the conversation beyond legality, revealing the most banal and pervasive of power dynamics: that men interpret women's behavior through the filter of their own wishes.

We think we'd be delighted to have an unconditional relationship, but that's only as long as it's on our own terms.

Beliefs and ideals have become just another way to put up walls.

As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you.

Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

Be alert! Some people have problems. Don't let them be your problem and don't ever allow their problems to infect you through their words and actions! Stay happy!

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.

Art is what you can get away with.

Art has an obligation to offend

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.