Almost Quote by Shahzia Sikander Download Open image “In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.” — Shahzia Sikander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Almost Becomes End Ends Gesture Gestures In the end Like Painting Ritual
Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all… — Leland Bell Copy Share Image
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there.… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world. — Jeffrey Smart Copy Share Image
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. — Balthus Copy Share Image
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning,… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential. — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work is going to be… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
For me, I always feel that I'm not sure what's going to happen next year or what's going to happen the year after or… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently...a nd different relationships between different works start to emerge.… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
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