Quotes About Art

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

What I feel responsible for is, if my name is on a comic, I want it to be the best-written comic that I can possibly do. I want it to include some new things we haven't seen before, new story ideas, new characters. Quality, quality art, all those kinds of things.

Politics is real. It has an impact on people's lives. It's harder to quantify the impact art has. Personally, I oscillate between two extremes. Some days I think it's very important. Other days I think it isn't important at all.

Obviously I will try to do 4 films a year, but more than quantity, quality is what matters to me.

I was never interested in the quantity of films or the glamorous side of cinema.

First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that.

Well... I don't think everyone can actually be a drag queen, but I think everyone should investigate drag.

Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.

A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.

I've been a drag queen in public for a while now.

If you put drag in front of anything, it inherently makes it more fun. So mashing up films with cult followings with drag queens is a natural fit for a good time.

I had to do a lot of dancing in 'Queens of Country.'

Some of my favorite drag queens are women.

I hit the road with a bunch of drag queens every year, sometimes two times a year. Again, as such a fan of drag, it's the art form that excites me and the longform presentation that they do. So it's super exciting to be with them, doing what they love to do and doing it well.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I've met faux queens. I've met kings. Anything that you want can be considered drag in the context.

A lot of people just feel really impacted and inspired by drag in ways that I don't think we, as self-absorbed drag queens, think about that often.

My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.

Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms.

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

Honestly, drag queens are embedded within every part of queer culture.

I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.