Quotes by Shahzia Sikander - Page 1

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.
Shahzia Sikander / Artist
Art
Tickets
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In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
Shahzia Sikander / Artist
Ends
Gestures
Painting
Ritual
Gesture
In The End
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Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.
Shahzia Sikander / Artist
Boundaries
Essential
Transcend
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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 / Artist
Nerd
Quiet
Hardly
Outsider
Spoke
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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 / Artist
Notice
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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 / Artist
Imagination
Drawing
Practice
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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 / Artist
Drawing
Remains
Vehicle
Fundamental
Inventive
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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 / Artist
Practice
Rebuilding
Transformation
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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 / Artist
New Ways
Relevance
Experiment
Miniature
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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 / Artist
Quiet
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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 / Artist
Boots
Cowboy
Exotic
Fascinated
Houston
Identity
Texan
Central
Distinct
Elaborate
Specifically
Styles
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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 / Artist
Artist
Exercise
Talking
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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 / Artist
Art
Illustration
Practice
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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 / Artist
Next Year
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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 / Artist
Space
Drawing
Thinking
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