Quotes About Art

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

Art and culture are the greatest weapons against hate agendas, entrenched ideologies, and power structures that harbor and promote the business of divisiveness.

Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate beings; they were used to make slavery acceptable and to make black subjugation more palatable.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

I like to express myself through the clothes that I wear.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.

I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

All of my songs were about my firsthand experiences. Pretty much, I've learned how to become my own muse and take situations from my own life and wear them on my sleeve.

I really fell in love with the art of making clothes when I was dancing on tour. Creating my stage image through clothes was a blast. I discovered a total sense for what cool chicks and rockin' dudes like to wear. Total Skull is for those people. People that like to rock - total rock.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

I definitely like wearing leotards.

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

If someone is wearing something terrific, that's what I want to photograph.

They didn't know what to do with rap music. You walk into Epic, and they're wearing straight-leg khakis with creases, Prada shoes with tassels. They couldn't comprehend where I was coming from.

I have always been a fan of Alex Perry's work. His gowns are so beautiful, elegant, and always uniquely crafted to the woman wearing them on the red carpet. They are a true piece of art-meets-couture.

I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art school, and many of the techniques I learned on canvas, I applied to makeup.

I hated school, so when I got to this place with other people who could draw and were interested in wearing makeup, it was amazing.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.