Quotes About Identity

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

Art is ultimately schizophrenic.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.