Textile Artist Inspirational Quotes (32)

In solitude... one can think and feel deeply without interruption. I have definitely grown far closer to myself rather than to others because I see my quiltmaking as my experience which has nothing to do with other people.

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.

Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.