Kathleen Hanna Quotes

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective.

Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you're still very much a cipher for other people's art.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I will preach with my brush.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.