Adnan Sami Quotes

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

I'm intrigued by traditional Indian designs. They are so beautifully handcrafted, and the designs are so intricate and beautiful. I really prefer the Indian designs.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

I like the classics!

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

My mom is a sculptress.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

I have often called attention to the fact that walking through the streets in the Middle Ages was a different experience from nowadays. Right and left, there were house facades that were built out of what the soul felt and thought. Every key, every lock, carried the imprint of the person who had made it.

Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

Woodcuts have a really timeless sort of feel, and they feel like a book that's a couple hundred years old.

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

Bengal's indigenous art and craft is widely popular throughout the world.

In tribal Botswana, I received some woven necklaces and a handmade bow with three poison arrows. It's framed and hanging on the wall in my living room and is, without a doubt, one of my favorite possessions.

I'm a folk artist at heart.