Abbey Lee Kershaw Quotes

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

I have a great appreciation for body art.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.

Through art, you create your own world.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don't know. It's just a mural... a collage.

I've always wanted to get a tattoo.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

I have over 35 tattoos.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.

I love tattoos.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.