Quotes About Individuality

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

I paint my own reality.

The joy of dressing is an art.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

All art is autobiographical.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.