Quotes About Art

I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have it exist there and not inside you. It's a way to control things.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

I agree with Ru that it'll never be mainstream, because mainstream means everybody knows it, everybody loves it, everybody accepts it. That's never gonna happen with drag, but it's definitely become more mainstreamed for people that never knew anything about it, being opened up to it as a form of art.

Chorus Line' opened things up a bit. Any show that's successful does that. But 'Chorus Line' was about dancers.

Music is a way of opening up.

I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

In England, ballet is kind of closed. They are opening up a little bit, but it was always something not for the general public. So you don't get fame, like a football star or a film star. And if you don't get fame, you can't do other stuff.

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate my openings.

I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

I used to live in New York, and I know a number of people who have friends who work at galleries. I spent time hanging out with them, going to openings. It was a good way to do research, to hang out and to look at the art that was present.

I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.

I create openings, and I move. I fight. It's an art form.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.

The thing that's carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness.