Miranda July Quotes

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

I only understand realism.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.

I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.

The commerce in sexual stimulation and auto-eroticism, for its own sake, unrelated to marriage, procreation, or familial relations is an evil, an obscenity... detrimental to the health and morality of the state

A book, small in size, but immense in its perversity

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

One of the things I love about Joel and Ethan Coen's movies is that there is this element of the ethereal and the mythic that they play with.

My Hippy' is filled with futuristic fashion, bright colors, beautiful camera work, trippy effects, and even has a cameo from the infamous 'Sunset Blvd Jesus.'