Shahzia Sikander quotes
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“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. To tap into that energy-to tap into that moment-is great for me as an exercise.”
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“For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.”
-- Shahzia SikanderSource : "Artist Shahzia Sikander on how she draws" by Shahzia Sikander, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.
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“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 exhibited. And since some of the work I do is created onsite, it requires a different type of space, versus the smaller drawings or more subject-oriented work. So that the context becomes important.”
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“Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.”
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“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 that stabilizes my practice.”
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“In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.”
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“Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.”
-- Shahzia Sikander
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“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”
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“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
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“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”
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Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.179, Granta Books
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“I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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