Bryan Collier quotes

Bryan Collier quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about connection, how different elements relate to each other, you deepen your understanding of yourself and others.”
-- Bryan Collier

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“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”
“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”
“Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.”
“Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.”
“I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.”
“Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.”

Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, April 15, 2003.
“The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.”
“People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”
“The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.”
“A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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