IVY NICHOLSON: “That is unusual, to look like you had just walked out of a fairy tale. She had nothing human about her, just mystery.”
EDIE SEDGWICK: “I understand because I’m only half in this world, it’s always been a problem… The very things that I might have given in to, that demanded, that said this is your life… I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end… You care enough that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way… you really do want it to be involved in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing…”
BIBBE HANSEN: “People will always romanticize her self-destruction; but for me it was all about the enchantment that glimmered and shone within her despite everything else - a testament to her power.”
EDIE SEDGWICK: “You have to work like mad to make people understand… Even if I don’t make it, you know, I really insist on believing, and then I fall off the edge because there’s nobody else to follow it. And I would just fall off the edge.”
L.M. KIT CARSON: “This is what makes you crazy, the strength of her soul. The Warhol thing was like, they were lucky, that’s all. They didn’t create her.”
