Daria Halprin quotes

“Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.”
-- Daria Halprin

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“The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being”
-- Daria Halprin

Source : Daria Halprin (2003). “The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor, and Meaning”, p.17, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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“If your body could speak, what would it say?”
-- Daria Halprin

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“I'm willing to die, but... not of boredom.”
-- Daria Halprin

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“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

“A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.”

“In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.”

“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”

“What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.”