Quotes About Individuality

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.