Quotes About Individuality

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Normal people do not create art.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

There is no best anything in art.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

In the arts there are many right answers.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."