Able Quote by Shahzia Sikander Download Open image “Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.” — Shahzia Sikander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Art Artist Boundaries Boxed Essential Transcend
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every kind of… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available. — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and… — Marvin Gaye 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
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. — 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
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
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
