Quotes About Identity

art is the pulse of a nation.

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?

Change art to include yourself.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

I am the soul in limbo.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.