Rachael Price famous quotes

I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.
-- Rachael Price

#Art #Race #Space

US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.
-- Rachael Price

#Two #People #Track

I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.
-- Rachael Price

#Thinking #Aspect #Enthusiastic

I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.
-- Rachael Price

#Cities #Want #Gallery

Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.
-- Rachael Price

#Art #Struggle #Successful

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.
-- Rachael Price

#Art #Creativity #Thinking

The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.
-- Rachael Price

#Imagery #Really Great

There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.
-- Rachael Price

#New York #Independent #Numbers

Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do use the art world as a space for critical reflection and people look to it for that.
-- Rachael Price

#Art #Reflection #Space

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’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.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.