Top 24 Jose Parla Quotes
#1. As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.
Jose Parla
#2. For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.
Jose Parla
#3. Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.
Jose Parla
#4. When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.
Jose Parla
#5. Sometimes ...
it took seconds to control your anger,
only to avoid the state of eternal feud.
Toba Beta
#6. If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.
Jose Parla
#7. People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.
Jose Parla
#8. Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.
Shoshin Nagamine
#10. The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.
Jose Parla
#12. Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty.
Jose Parla
#14. I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.
Jose Parla
#15. It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn't, and we weren't.
Scott Heim
#18. The symphonic sounds of nature awaken every cell in my body and, in that moment, without a doubt, I am truly alive.
Ian Somerhalder
#19. She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.
Renata Adler
#20. My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.
Jose Parla
#21. You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.
Jose Parla
#22. I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.
Jose Parla
#23. But ... it's one of those laws of the universe, isn't it? Nothing stays the same. Things change.
Sam Gayton
#24. I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.
Jose Parla
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