Quotes About Art

I feel good cinema, be it big or small, with small actor or big actor, it always works.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I come from the school of thought that feels that if you can shoot film, you should shoot film.

My feet are dogs.

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

I fell in love with '50s hot-rod, pinup-girl culture.

I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.

I got the 'Max Rose' script, and I fell in love with it. It just hit me. It was something that needed to be made.

I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

I've always felt like I can dance.

The female body is a beautiful thing, and it should be embraced and celebrated.

I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.

It's interesting that female artists are underrepresented in exhibitions. That may be down to the fact that the people in power in the art world are men.

I think a lot of people see fashion as a feminine art form and use that as an excuse to dismiss it. Highlighting it can be a way of affirming that women's interests are of value.