Vanda Scaravelli
“A rigid mind is very sure but often wrong. A flexible mind is generally unsure, but often right.”
“The beauty of yoga. It is the meeting of the brain with the body. When you are attentive, concentrated, when you feel what you are doing, there is energy. The binding of the two becomes energy. It is important to understand this. When they are together there is great energy, which gives the body freedom and makes the mind more supple.”
"Yoga must not be practised to control the body,it must bring freedom to the body, all the freedom it needs."
“To be sensitive is to be alive.”
Louise Bourgeois
“To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.”
“Art is a guarantee of sanity.”
“Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.”
"The spiral is an attempt at controlling the chaos. It has two directions. Where do you place yourself, at the periphery or at the vortex? Beginning at the outside is the fear of losing control; the winding in is a tightening, a retreating, a compacting to the point of disappearance. Beginning at the center is affirmation, the move outward is a representation of giving, and giving up control; of trust, positive energy, of life itself. Spirals—which way to turn—represent the fragility in an open space. Fear makes the world go round."
“The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”
“Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.”
“Art is a way of recognizing oneself.”
Spirales, 1974