Quotes About Art

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

O woman shapely as a swan.

Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

I went out with a promiscuous impressionist. She did everybody.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.

Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

Before my sister, Sara, and I went to bed at night, my mom would show us books on Manet and other artists. Even then I was always really interested in how the women looked in the images.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

To most women art is a form of scandal.