Tania Bruguera famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.
-- Tania Bruguera

#Art #World #Building
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
-- Tania Bruguera

#Art #Museums #Today
In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
-- Tania Bruguera

#World #Citizens #Dignity
As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you... Those are the same difficulties you'll have as a professional artist, so the school is the place to notice them and to find a way to make them work.
-- Tania Bruguera

#School #Artist #Way
The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.
-- Tania Bruguera

#Political #Firsts
Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.
-- Tania Bruguera

#Taken #Opportunity #Political
Art and politics have many things in common.
-- Tania Bruguera

#Art #Common

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Tania Bruguera famous quotes

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