Quotes About Art

I am but a blank canvas, because everyone interprets you in a different way, and I think that's quite nice.

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition, and it was quite expensive. It was very expensive, actually - way too expensive.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art.

After Newport, I worked in television for a while, and then I went to The Royal College Of Art and did a master's degree. I really did study quite a lot!

I have to watch quite a lot of films for work and I really enjoy going to the cinema and watching someone's creative work.

I operate on anger quite a lot. Its what gets me up in the morning to make art quite often. Well, irritation at least.

It's been quite some time now since I've been deejaying. And, I think I can play music well.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

I based my lips on Jessica Rabbit.

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

I care about 'RuPaul's Drag Race' a lot. It's given me a career as an artist.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

Musicals weren't on my radar.

When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.

I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.

I want to do the most feminist, radical film.