Top 25 Sikander Quotes
#1. I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.
Louise Penny
#2. Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.
George Herbert
#3. It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.
Richard Griffiths
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
Willa Cather
#8. 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
#9. Now I smile. "How's everything with you?" I call down cheerfully. This takes them aback, but I know the crowd will love it.
Suzanne Collins
#11. 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
#12. Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.
Shahzia Sikander
#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. 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
#15. Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#16. Healthy posture is based on natural positions that balance and support your skeletal system's curves and weight-bearing abilities against the force of gravity.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#17. In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
Shahzia Sikander
#18. No wonder when he steps into the heavens to accept the throne the cry goes up, "Worthy! Worthy! Worthy! Make him king!" This man is so worthy.
John Eldredge
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
Horace Walpole
#23. 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
#24. We are the third world not because the sun rises on the West and sets in the East but because we have engaged the reverse gear and we are moving with jet like speed in the wrong direction -we must change this by rolling up our sleeves and working for the growth of our country.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#25. 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
