Shahzia Sikander quotes

“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.”
-- Shahzia Sikander

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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 Sikander

Source : "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.”
-- Shahzia Sikander

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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.”
-- Shahzia Sikander

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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.”
-- Shahzia Sikander

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“In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.”
-- Shahzia Sikander

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“Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.”
-- Shahzia Sikander

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“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

“After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.”

“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”

“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”

“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

“A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.179, Granta Books

“Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.”

“You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.”

“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.