Quotes About Individuality

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

In the art game we do our own cooking.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

Art has got nothing to do with taste.