The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.
Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.
One does not consider style, because style is.
I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.
For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.'
Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
Jazz stands for freedom.
Drag is a gift.
Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I think that, wherever you are in the world, that impulse exists within human beings.
If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.
The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.
Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.
High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
I'm not really a flashy guy anywhere else - I don't dress flashy or anything else - but I like to keep my cars nice, and I like to customize them. I can do things a little flashier and a little faster, and with a little bit more thought. This is kind of the release part of basketball.
For me, fashion means dare. I don't mind wearing a bikini. I am okay with it.
Everybody does drag for different reasons.
Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.
