Marilyn Minter Quotes

I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.

He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Draw what you see.

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.

I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.

I want paint to work as flesh.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.