Grimes Quotes

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

My life is cinematic in some ways.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.