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Lisa Swerling Quotes

b. 1972

Lisa Swerling (born 1972) is a South African/British artist and a New York Times Bestselling author. She is best known for her Glass Cathedrals dioramas.

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"Looking at the small people in Glass Cathedrals... we feel compassion – first for them, then for ourselves, and finally for others."

We spend a lot of energy trying to show that we are one thing or the other, in denial about the reality that both sides of these opposites exist in every one of us.

"I've always been interested in the contradictions of being human. That we can feel both big and small, be paralysed by self-doubt or filled with self-confidence."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lisa Swerling (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.