P. J. Harvey Quotes

You can't underestimate the importance of cover art.

From the time I start prep to serving the food at the table, I like for the whole thing to be beautiful.

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

The artist in me cries out for design.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

I love using color.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

It is entertainment; we mustn't forget that. Dance is entertainment. You can have the best technicians in the world, but they'll be boring to watch. It has to be about entertainment as well, but it's quality, grace.

I view myself as a musician and I focus on music - other people may try to focus on the music, but the emphasis is heavily on visuals and performance. They're both equally valid, but different.

I'm really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.