Quotes About Identity

She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are self-portraits. All part of why art informs.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

I want to be famous but unknown!

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

every good artist paints what he is

I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

An artist is like a handicaphe needs his art to carry himself.

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.