Jazz is not background music.
I only understand realism.
I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.
I'm aware that if I make a country album and release it, and it gets on the Grammys, the Grammys are going to put it in the Urban category. Just my blackness automatically sets it in there.
Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.
I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.
I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's assumed another one is going to take their place. With Francis Bacon's death, a whole genre of art died.
Be true to what you want to say, or whatever style it is that you've chosen or genre you've chosen. Do it well! My criteria always has been that the piece must stand the chance of succeeding on the level it's intended to succeed on.
I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.
I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.
I felt like people weren't going to accept me as a pop artist.
People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.
You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible.
I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.
I am not a genre-based artist.
I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
Just understand that the type of music that I make is something special.
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.
I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.
I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.
I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
