Miniature Painting Quotes

#1. I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Mohsin Hamid

#2. 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

#3. My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it.

Shahzia Sikander

#4. Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#5. NEXT LIFE. My embroidery studio on the main street of Bayeux will be just one part of my Institute of Slow Information. I will also teach letter writing, listening, miniature portrait painting, and the art of doing one thing at a time.

Vivian Swift

#6. Strength isn't measurable, it's inside of each of us and we need to find it when we feel weak.

Corinne Michaels

#7. Food is like war. You have to experience it for yourself.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#8. Impulse buying really is good for the soul.

Lacey London

#9. Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

Alasdair Gray