Quotes About Art

Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

Women's voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that art form. Diversity is strength.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

I was painter staring at a canvas waiting for the forgotten visions of my new abstract piece to come to me. But I am the abstract piece and my mind cannot comprehend the work my heart has created.

A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I want to tell a 'silly love story.' The fact it exists through my gaze is radical.

Pretty women with no soul like paintings on the wall

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

Until I find a home in a human, art has my heart.

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.