Quotes About Individuality

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

The art of dressing is the art we all practice

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.