Kathleen Hanna Quotes

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

A great painting is a great painting.

The avant garde is so narcissistic.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

All artists are crazy.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point of view and are very passionate.

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like bringing disparate kinds of creative people together to create some great work, even to share points of view on a new direction.