Shahzia Sikander Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive

Gayle Forman

#4. I would like people to be moved to act collectively, to militate.

Catherine Corsini

#5. I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.

Shahzia Sikander

#6. I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

Shahzia Sikander

#7. Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.

Nikki Sixx

#8. Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

Shahzia Sikander

#9. And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Dave Navarro

#10. 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.

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#11. In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

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#12. What is delayed is not lost ...

Juliette Drouet

#13. 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

#14. tumbril on his way to the Guillotine.

Charles Dickens

#15. Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

Shahzia Sikander

#16. When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically 'Texan' identity, one distinct from being 'American.'

Shahzia Sikander

#17. For me, I always feel that I'm not sure what's going to happen next year or what's going to happen the year after or what's in the future. So I really kind of just focus on the project at hand and try to do the best that I can. And that, for me, is as much as I can control.

Shahzia Sikander

#18. 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

#19. Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

Gary Ryan Blair

#20. I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

Shahzia Sikander