Zouber Yousiph - Syria-Germany

Visual Artist

I want to sing; I want to dance; I want to paint; I want to move, I want to live....endless. That is the beauty and the human that is life.

Susie Veroff – USA–Canada

Visual Artist

I have never limited myself to a technique or to a way of doing art. I think everything is possible.

Dimitar Velichkov - Bulgaria

Visual Artist

(Through art) I like the idea of making the world better and my country better.

Burhan Uzunyayla - Germany

Script writer, Film director

I like to write different stories with different persons and then at the end have them come together as one. This is like my life itself.

Larry D. Thomas - United States of America
Poet

(At the cemetery in the ghost town of Turlingua, Texas) The wind is always blowing a bit and it was as if the voices were speaking and insisting that their stories be told.

Gheorghe Stirbu – Moldovoa-Romania

Visual Artist

Browns and colors will stay between the lines I have outlined for support, waiting for the drawing always created, so dear to me.

Daniela Stanoiu - Romania

Photographer

...I was born into a photographer family. My mother and my father were my teachers.

Giuseppe Strano Spitu – Italy-Spain

Sculpture, Dance, Performance, Installation

In my sculpture I want not only to make the beautiful, but I want my sculpture to have a concept.

Clemens Beaunghun Sou – Republic of Korea/ Austria

Visual Artist, Professor, Curator

During the past six years I have visited thirty countries through ninety artist symposia.

Lorand Sipos – Romania-Hungary

Visual Artist

In aquarelle I paint cities and landscape, but not in photorealist way. I put more of myself in these works.

Gianfranco Scafidi – Italy

Visual Artist

To speak of me, I must speak of art; and to speak of art, I must speak of me. They are the same.

Maria Esperanza Almoguera Sanchez - Argentina – Spain

Visual Artist

My main theme is Nature and the four elements: water, air, fire, and earth.

Saida Saada – Morocco

Visual Artist

The painting I love has to do with the road…the human-being road and the journey.

Elizabeth Raby – United States of America
Writer

I think my poetry has always been about being outdoors, the thrill of being outdoors, and the beauty which Nature provides.

Dumitru Pop – Romania

Sculptor, Poet, Painter

I must be a good sculptor, a good painter, and a good poet. These three jobs commune together.

Galina Petkova – Bulgaria

Visual Artist, Psychologist

I work with children who have so little, who have Downs Syndrome or autism or cerebral palsy.

Andra Panduru – Romania

Visual Artist

The media I prefer was first tapestry, and from tapestry I became interested in installation, related to tapestry and thread.

Kenza Oulaghida – Morocco

Weaver

I hope people will recognize the quality work we do here in our commune of Ait Hiamza in Gigou... And I say to everybody, “Welcome, welcome, welcome.”

Rabha Oujeddou – Morocco

Designer, Weaver

I work with a team of my friends and cousins.... Because of the team, the work created is good.

Ted Ormai – United States of America

Visual Artist

Magnetism is inspiration, a material, and a subject matter in the pieces that I have done.

Natasa Novak – Slovenia

Visual Artist

For my paintings, I chose children because to me children represent innocence, beauty, prettiness... but I combine that with the burden of adulthood fears...

Khadija Mssyeh – Morocco

Poet

I always thought about the destiny of humankind, above all the women who are suffering injustice, and I began to write poems.

Fatiha Mourahhib – Morocco

Visual Artist

In Fez much of my work is mosaic and can be found in fountains and along old streets, and in the panoramic view of murals.

Emile Louisius – Haiti

Painter

I want young people to know, if you like art, do not be discouraged; your future can be a life in art.

He Lihong – China

Printmaker, Woodcut

Woodcut printmaking has a history, and it also was a tradition in China. I think this is an international language.

Verena Kronseder - Germany

Musician

I like the correspondence from history and the ancient music.

Tzetanka Koykova – Bulgaria-Belgium
Sculptor, Architect

I studied sculpture, monumental art, ceramic, restoration. I studied with a specialization in stone. So, my life is filled with art

Andor Komives – Romania

Visual Artist

I like to use imagery from cartoons, from temporary mythology, but my characters are talking or putting a question to provoke you.

Sung Heun Kim– Korea/Italy

Visual Artist

I have a project in installation. The theme is “Human is born of the land, and after returns to the land.

Fadia el Khatib – Lebanon

Visual Artist

I went to school, to university, so late in life. Now I am working more on myself to make my dream come true.

Valentinus Rommy Iskandar – Indonesia

Visual Artist

To become an artist is difficult.

Irena Gayatri Horvat – Croatia

Visual Artist

...I am always thinking about the energy and handwork...how to put all of this together in my art.

Kareem Mahmoud Helmy – Egypt

Visual Artist

About my paintings’ backgrounds, usually you feel something goes wrong; you feel something mysterious, abnormal is happening.

Reem Hassan – Egypt

Visual Artist

She (my mother) was always with me everywhere; she always encouraged me to do everything.

Sidihamza Hamzaoui – Morocco

Textile & Djellaba Design

...what concerns me is that some people are stealing our work, our own heritage by making imitations of the djellaba Hamzaoui.

Aicha Hamzaoui – Morocco

Weaver, Textile & Djellaba Design

First we make the thread by hand. We spin thread, then we begin to weave the fine fabric. Last comes the djellaba itself.

Dragana Grujicic – Serbia

Visual Artist

I am the only artist in my family, and as a child, my life was very connected to the life in the village.

Kim Goldsmith – Australia

Visual Artist

Basically, I am creating a nest wherever I travel.

Claudia Gerauer – Germany

Musician

What most satisfies and what makes me most happy is the experience on the way to find out what the music says and to learn its grammar.

Mariana Felcman- Argentina

Visual Artist

Color is important to me because the colors are my feelings. The picture tells me what it needs.

Zakori Fatna– Morocco

Visual Artist

When I was a child, I love the traditional handicrafts, especially weaving. In Arabic, it’s called zaribea.

Mahgouba Elhakkaoui – Morocco

Weaver, Medicinal Plants

I am a good craftswomen of works woven by hand, and I know how to use medicinal plants.

Catherine Dumont-Chretien – France
Visual Artist

I attend symposiums, exhibitions abroad ...For me, it’s very enriching .,, Each time, the experience is very different.

Mohamed Chetouani – Morocco

Poet and Painter

... I love that which is very old. I look for the source, the history of the village, the storytelling...

Amina Boutotla – Morocco

Berber Weaver

There are many signs and symbols woven into the rugs, which explain some of the traditions of women...

Noufissa Benjelloun – Morocco

Writer, Painter, Psychiatrist

My life is painting, studying, and writing.

Ng Bee – Malaysia

Visual Artist

Originally, Sasaran was unknown. Since hosting this activity (international art symposium), people recognize the community.

Tommy Barr – Northern Ireland

Visual Artist

For me the early prehistoric type work in Ireland is a foundation for the art that has followed. I consider it the beginning of the art that is my heritage,

Ludmila Baitsaeva – Federation of Russia
Visual Artist

The artist presents new objectives and new possibilities for this life. .... Artists make this life more wonderful, more sensitive.

Saleh Al-Hathloul – Saudi Arabia

Architect, Critic, Urbanist

I have been ....dealing with the dilemma of tradition and traditional environments and the issue of identity in the contemporary urban architecture and urbanism.

Souad Aitalla – Morocco

Weaver

Since I was a child, my mom taught me how to weave carpets.... and how we can tell a story through the carpets.

Fatima Aijou – Laayoune

Visual Artist

The issue of water, life, the moon, and the relationship of the life of the desert are also an underlying theme of my work.

Zainab Ahl Andour - Laayoune

Visual Artist

Within my paintings I express the celebration and joy that comes out of life and also the miseries that sometimes a woman goes through because of the norms and way of life there (in Sahara tribal desert).

Salah Cherki – Morocco

Musician