Quotes About Art

Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

I love Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but if I'm not in the right frame of mind to watch their work, I feel upset after watching it.

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

People have been trained to believe that comedy is the five- and 10-minute segments that you see on TV. But in 10 minutes, you can't really talk about yourself.

Very seldom do I use white in my books.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

It is very easy to make an art film. They are an exercise in self-deception.

I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.

People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.

When you have a child, you really understand what it means to love, to have something to be selfless for. I think that elevates you. It elevates your consciousnesses, your level of thinking, your art and the way you approach it - everything.

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

Our society and media have lost touch with the job of the artist. The job of the artist has been subordinated to the job of the record seller.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.