Ann Reinking Quotes

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

Art matters.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

The more far-out artists, the better.

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.

I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.

The cubism of Braque or Picasso, the dissonant compositions of Schoenberg or Stravinsky, the free-flowing and often erotic choreography of Isadora Duncan and Nijinsky - these were acts of rebellion against the certainties and traditions of the old world.

I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness.