Quotes About Identity

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

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

I'd rather produce art than become art.

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

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me

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 is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

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.

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

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

Art is the questioning of culture

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?