Jaune Quickâ€“toâ€“See Smith famous quotes

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Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.
-- Jaune Quickâ€“toâ€“See Smith

#Art #Should
In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.
-- Jaune Quickâ€“toâ€“See Smith

#Art #Distance #Reality
I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way clear to give me those things, instead she gave me a strong will.
-- Jaune Quickâ€“toâ€“See Smith

#Strong #Will To Survive #Giving
The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.
-- Jaune Quickâ€“toâ€“See Smith

#Air #Sky #Breathing
Culture is not race and race is not culture.
-- Jaune Quickâ€“toâ€“See Smith

#Race #Culture

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

Jaune Quickâ€“toâ€“See Smith famous quotes

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