Sonia Rykiel Quotes

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

When someone gives you a piece of music, they are really giving you a piece of themselves.

I think every song I do is specifically tailored to what I would say and how I approach situations.

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul. For me, designing is an expression of who I am as a woman, with all the complications, feelings and emotions.

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.

At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the artist. Those of us who become photographers are never satisfied with just looking at someone else's expression of something that is dear to us. We must produce our own images, instead of buying postcards and photo books. We seek to make our own statements of individuality.

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

Style is character.

Every good painter paints what he is.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.