Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Radka Donnell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a poet Radka Donnell.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Radka Donnell, was a feminist, painter, art therapist, poet, translator, storyteller, and pioneer of modern quilt-making. She explored what quilts can mean and look like, as distinct from traditional quilting and the fine arts culture.

Poet | November 24, 1924 - February 13, 2013

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My quiltmaking is sandwiched, moved about, displaced between other activities and the crosscurrents of people's movements inside the place I live.

Radka Donnell

My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

Radka Donnell

I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.

Radka Donnell

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Radka Donnell

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