Sikander Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Married life, offered in service to God, is such a good and rewarding life. Let's give ourselves fully to it; let's keep building our "marital house" until we die, pursuing each other, forgiving each other, loving each other, and growing together through the years. If we do this, we will, like Anne, be richly blessed with a lifelong love. — Gary L. Thomas

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

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives. — Nathan Glazer

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

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience. — Shahzia Sikander

Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material. — Pat Conroy

I was feeling more edgy and uncomfortable as my unquenched desires moved from a feeling of discontent to full blown pain. At first, the sensation was more like an irritation or itch, but the longer I sat there, the more intense it grew. Not only was I burning from the dissatisfaction of my unmet arousal, but my entire body felt like it was on fire. It was as if a billion poisoned needles were being injected into me simultaneously torturing my soul with flames that licked the flesh from my body. — J.M. Northup

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

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

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

Guys think that if a girl is pretty, she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with, I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or, I've had to ask them. — Brooke Shields

When the time came for the porter to depart, Sindbad gave him a purse containing one hundred sequins, saying, Take this, Hindbad, and go home, but to-morrow come again and you shall hear more of my adventures. — Anonymous

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential. — Shahzia Sikander

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

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

Nd now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive — Keith Urban

We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can operate on that basis unless you have large cash balances, which we don't. My concern is that the government doesn't appear to care about manufacturing. — Ratan Tata

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

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

Love comes in seemingly insignificant moments and if you're not paying attention, you might miss them. — Roxanne Snopek

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III. — Beau Bridges