Quotes About Art

Fashion blogs are great, but I also take inspiration from movies, nature, everyday objects.

To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have to stop and think; there's just not that much left.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

The 20-year-old version of me had all this energy, and wanted to be obnoxious with his art and wanted to communicate even though he didn't know what he wanted to communicate.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.

I've always been obsessed with fashion.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

I am obsessed with cinema and its history.

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.