Quotes About Identity

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

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

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

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.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

There is no patriotic art.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

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

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

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.