Traditional Art Forms Quotes

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

I like Kerala a lot. The beautiful beaches there, the backwaters - I have good memories of the place.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

In reality, you just don't see many Samoan artists. Culturally, it's just not something that's really emphasized much - at least, hand-drawn art.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.

I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often.

Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.

The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.