artists

"Part of me would say that you do everything and anything because even in something that may not seem interesting at the time, there is a reason for it to come."

"I tend to be a very optimistic person"

"I always believe – If I direct I’ll become a better actor, and if I act I’ll become a better diretor"

"Never say no. I always said no at the beginning. I’d say, “No, I won’t do this, I’ll wait for that. No, I won’t do this yet"

"I seldom get depressed and if I do, it’s very shortlived and it’s usually about a play or in the process of a character"

"I think I felt a great sense of liberation when I turned 40. I was less hard on myself. We have this terrible stigma that we are lesser than"

"I think the challenge has been to make a living basically because we are not hugely supported"

"I try to show the bigger image, not just show we have problems," she says. "And we do have a lot of problems, but I do want to show normal daily life."

"Throughout my career, the water has featured as a muse and illustrates the different connections I have with the ocean and how it may have mirrored my own psychology at a particular time,"

"I love that moment of immersion where someone jumps in and they bring that air into the water. It's a really visceral feeling of immersion; going into another place and another world,"

"She had developed the films under moonlight and ensured that each picture was good before leaving that location."

"She was so strongly influenced by the teachings of this faith that she became a Baháʼí in 1922. She was the first woman who converted to this faith in Australia."

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"She had spent her life living under the Taliban; she knew what that meant for Afghan women, and she understood that she could tell their stories in photographs."

"Shoghi Effendi liked her photographic work, and included the photographs she had taken of monument gardens on Mount Carmel and others in the Baháʼí yearbook."

"I'm hoping people get the sense of awe that I have when I'm in the water. I hope they feel transformed, and inspired to love the ocean,"

"Many Afghan photographers are not well-connected," she explains. "We hope it will create a better connection and show Afghanistan by Afghan photographers."

"Day by day, as I started learning about photography, I fell more in love with it. There was a huge need for women photographers in Afghanistan."

"Women were banned from continuing their education during Taliban rule. But some, like Farzana, found ways to keep studying. She would carry books under her burqa and attended what she calls an "underground school" with about 300 other students in a residential area of Kabul."

"Photography is isolating, so I tend to try and find bodies of work that are actually an extension of how I'm living, so whether it's walking on the beach or in the ocean or swimming — it's a way of exploring what that means to me and why I'm attracted to it,"

"I represent myself."

"I was always going to be known as the bastard."

"My art addresses my internal tension between my deep love for Nigeria, my country of birth, and my strong appreciation for Western culture, which has profoundly influenced both my life and my art."

"You don't exist if you aren't represented... i felt a need to claim my own social existence by making the representation happen."

"An artist's creation is an extension of themselves, thus their artworks mirror their inner workings, desires and fears. When someone commits money to buy art, it is an indication, that they were moved by an aspect of the work."

"“Part of what I focus on is the pervasive presence of oppression, violence and hierarchies and the dominant roles they play in social life,"

"“One of my happiest memories is playing piano-and-violin duets with him,”. THE NEW YORK TIMES. (24/12/201"

"“I mean the truth is my husband is a brilliant director and a very commanding presence. Our relationship has been extremely passionate. We like to be together. But he does tend, when he walks into a room, to take up most of the space."

"Finally, she looks up and asks: “Do you have any pets?” She doesn’t know why this question. He shakes his head. He doesn’t like the idea of animals being domesticated. He says something about corrupting the animal spirit. She says: “And cockroaches?”"

"you will find Cuban heavy metal musicians, or rappers, along with those who play salsa – all outside influences are accepted without problems."

"The role of political art in Cuba is a big one. The newspaper where I have worked for years makes major use of editorial cartoons, and on not a few occasions the front page is a full-page cartoon."

"This isn’t a perfect country; we have lots of difficulties and many things that need to be improved, and many things that need to change. But we also have many things that are worthy of admiration, things that just about no other country of the so-called third world has achieved, or will achieve for a long time."

"It’s impossible that in any society everyone will be in favor of the government. This happens here also. These folks are in the minority, as far as I can see, and, anyway, it has to be that way – if it were not so, this Revolution would not have lasted more than 40 years, 90 miles from the U.S."

"Participation in international humor events has brought me many other influences. My work style includes a large dose of “esthetic vampirism,” in that I’ve absorbed a lot from a lot of different people. But I have a central axis, my major cartoon characters, who have been changing in their own right along with the changes in the type of humor that I happen to be doing."

"My cartoons are published in various media outlets, not only in Latin America but also in Europe, Asia and the U.S. In some cases, I’ve gotten paid for them, in others not. In most cases, what they pay me is truly miserable, but I persist, with the happiness of seeing my work reproduced and accepted by many people."

"What does bother me as a Cuban and an intellectual worker is that from the United States they’re trying to tell us Cubans what to do. President Bush recently called for democracy in Cuba; but I can’t explain to myself what moral standing he has, to give democracy lessons to my country, he being a president who got to the White House after fraudulent elections."

"I decided to do this because of a personal interest, and because I was totally convinced of what I had to do. The position of a professional here doesn’t greatly differ in economic status from that of any other productive activity, so it wasn’t something that would have a great effect on me. It is true that I won’t have the same degree of stability, but that’s the risk you take to do what you really want."

"People often confuse jokes with humor, but my humor is very serious. I not only make people laugh, but also make people reflect and analyze."

"the essential thing for a cartoonist is information. The more information you have “laid down” in your head, the more options you will have to create cartoons that are not trite or repetitive, and the better your ideas will be. This also presupposes a work ethic that requires you to rediscover yourself every day, and allows you to avoid “easy” solutions."

"Doctors cure diseases for humans, and cartoonists cure diseases for society. Humor can promote people's understanding of the complex conditions in contemporary society."

"To top it off, he wants to bomb any country that he pleases, using a slogan that a country is “antidemocratic” – which simply means that anyone who is not for him is against him, and thus a potential target of attack. According to Bush, here you can see the “socialist hell.” Well, in that case, rather than prohibiting U. S. citizens from traveling to Cuba, they should do as the writer Eduardo Galeano suggested: organize tourist excursions so people could see these “horrors.”"

"Psychiatry and comics have a lot in common, because they are related to the thinking of people I care about very much."

"The initial influences on my work are in the work that was developed in Cuba in the humor magazine Dedeté [DDT], which avoids “pamphletizing” [crude propagandizing] and looks for new forms of communication … for non-traditional esthetic solutions. That’s where my style starts out."

"Defying the ego, Armen Agop releases his works into the world detaching himself from them. For him, the man, it's all about the process, and for the stone, it's about endurance. Perhaps, his works can be regarded as contemporary conduits for the Ka, rare portals of communication between the incorporeal and the terrestrial realm. Created in time, they are meant to resist time, vibrating within their own frequencies as an undying ode to life."

"Each work may be considered as a contemporary microcosm, unnamed, self-referential, but rich of past and present identity, still tied to previous work but announcing the forthcoming one, which enables the viewer to participate in the discovery of his inner energy, sharing in the identity."

"Nevertheless, the answers remain innumerable and the sculptures seem different to the eyes of each beholder. Next to a drop of darkness that widens across the page of life may appear a meteorite radiated by cosmic waves, while the black disk of a pendulum keeps on reminding us of the inexorable flow of time. All this is seen through the fascinating kaleidoscope of Armen's art that projects images on images in an implacable vortex of stimuli. No single analysis is considered definitive because, as it happens for the hermetic poetries, in front of the sculptures of Armen an interpretation is tied intrinsically to the sensibility of the observer."

"These sculptures are not altars but mirrors of the viewer's soul."

"I believe that all art is playing seriously."

"I don't work, I either play or pray."

"The only prison is myself."