Otep Shamaya quotes

Art is my God, Music is my religion...
-- Otep Shamaya

#Art #Music Is #Art Is

You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket...We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent.
-- Otep Shamaya

#Thinking #Oil #People

The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming nonsense and balderdash plaguing Washington D.C. It uses a bit of satire and a bit of wishful thinking to form this powerful amalgam of imagery that nourishes and empowers the living art of the song. Our message is clear: Either these elected officials do their job and protect the rights and lives of ALL Americans or be prepared to face the consequences.
-- Otep Shamaya

#Song #Art #Jobs

We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep. Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep. While the media elite declare what to think, I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.
-- Otep Shamaya

#Sleep #Thinking #Media

A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever
-- Otep Shamaya

#Art #Forever #Bruises

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

The secret of art is love.