Marilyn Minter Quotes

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

I'm just like my fans, and that's the way I like it.

The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

My fans love me because I'm one of them.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

My approach is a very human one, as a fan.

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome.

Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.

There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book because it's had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they've been jealous of you, and you become friends.

If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

There's nothing like a man watching a roomful of guys look his woman up and down to make him desire what he already has (and vice versa).

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

The American audience has always without fail shown us very real emotions. We always try to just be ourselves and show them who Babymetal are.

When a kid smiles because you take an extra 30 seconds, minute, minute and a half to go over and ask them what their name is, give them the shirt you just wore to the ring, you just see them light up. We've all been kids before; we've all had our heroes, been fans of somebody and needed that autograph.

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.