Paul Cezanne Quotes

I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I do this work, but I am uncomfortable in situations where you're hyped into something you're not. Just because you're in a long limo doesn't mean anything.

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Style equals pretense.

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

You look like a normal person, if you can find a normal person who wants to look like that.

People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.