Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.

I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.

I don't have any style.

I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

I wear what I feel and what makes me feel happy.

I got rock in me.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound or what it's going to be or if people are going to like it.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I've got a lot of opinions.

I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.