Mark Strand Quotes

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

I don't think that people should be confined to any particular aesthetic.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

I have no one style.

There are no rules in art.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.

I don't think there were great beauty trends in the '90s - I was just doing my own thing.

I like art. It's another way to rebel.

It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.

My style is that I have no style.