Art Quotes

"Art without passion is merely technique; without meaning, it is empty."

"Representations are formations, or as I call them, structures of attitude and reference."

"Culture is that which makes life worth living, precisely because it offers meaning and continuity."

"The production of culture is always already a political act."

"Culture mediates between the individual and society, between the personal and the political."

"Representation is never innocent; it is always implicated in relationships of power."

"Culture is a living process, not a fixed monument to be preserved or destroyed."

"The task of the artist is to dismantle existing reality and present it back to us as a startling new creation."

"Art is not just aesthetic decoration, it is a fundamental way of processing reality."

"Art must disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

"Art is the language of liberation."

"Poetry is the rebellion of the spirit."

"Through poetry we become fully human."

"Culture is resistance."

"Our stories are our salvation."

"Culture preserves what violence would destroy."

"A poem is a revolutionary act."

"Art is the mirror of the soul."

"Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled people to express themselves."

"Representation itself is a complex political act with ethical consequences."

"The practice of reading is inseparable from the practice of interpretation."

"To interpret a text is to participate in its ongoing life and development."

"In reading, we engage in a practice that is both intimate and political."

"Art is not a refuge from reality, but a mirror that reveals reality's obscene underside."

"Art lies at the intersection of the possible and the impossible."

"Art is the testimony of what cannot be said."

"National culture is the collective memory of a people."

"A national culture under colonial domination is a contested culture whose destruction is attempted systematically."

"Without a national culture there is no salvation and no proof of a nation's existence."

"National culture is not folklore."