“I was always fascinated with people and places and seeing things I didn't know about.” Quote by Roxanne Lowit
“Somehow Annie Flanders from the SoHo News heard I was doing pictures and was headed to Paris. She saw my worked, liked it, and asked me to take pictures for her paper while I was there, but told me I would first have to buy a real camera - 35-millimeter. I got a little book that taught me how to load film. I read it on the flight to Paris. Hours later, I found myself at the top of the Eiffel Tower with Yves Saint Laurent and Andy Warhol. It's all been downhill since then.” BookRealFilmHoursSaintFlightWarholAnnieEiffel Tower Author:Roxanne Lowit
“I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of the two, hopefully, and there are a lot of people there that can do things well, but they might not be devoid of good ideas or maybe they're not especially interesting ideas, or maybe there's a good idea that a person is unable to execute in the manner that does justice to the idea.” PeopleThinkingArtistJusticeInterestingHopefullyGood ArtGood Artist Author:Michael C. McMillen
“When I did my first story for Italian Vogue for Franca Sozzani, she gave me something like 47 full pages, and I was like, That's all? I didn't know any better.” ItalianVogue Author:Roxanne Lowit
“I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because artists work with a combination of intuition and intellect blended together and out comes whatever they produce. So it's a blend of kind of a sensual response to material and an intellectual response to idea, maybe a blend of the two.” ThinkingKindArtTogetherArtistIntellectualResponseIntuitionIntellectSensualGood ArtThesis Author:Michael C. McMillen
“I always had to fight. I still do, believe it or not. When I had to go backstage. Even in Paris, I remember Billie Blair - a great model at the time - had to sneak me in by telling people I was her hairdresser. But her hair was so short, practically shaved. I said, "Couldn't you say I was your makeup artist?"” PeopleBelieveRememberArtistFightingMakeupSneakHairdresser Author:Roxanne Lowit
“I think people are very cynical with actors trying to tell them what to believe in, or lobbying for any kind of changing of government policy. Even I get cynical about it. Like, Why is Sharon Stone telling me this? And there's just something annoying about having Charlie Sheen tell me, "It's your responsibility to vote," in an admonishing way on MTV.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveKindResponsibilityPolicyVoteAnnoyingCynical Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I've always seen process of crafting as part of the thinking process. It really forms the gestation of the work. I'll get an idea; I want to express this idea, sometimes I'll start it, but during the process of making the object - if it's an object or a painting - it changes. It never goes in a linear progression from A to Zed. It's always this kind of circuitous, stumbling, groping in the dark kind of process of evolving.” ThinkingKindSometimesDarkPaintingEvolveProgression Author:Michael C. McMillen
“I love the idea of engaging the object, whether it be architecture or a piece of good graphic design, or a good painting, or piece of sculpture, or even a piece of industrial manufactured object. A piece of engineering can be quite beautiful, too, or a photomicrograph, or a cosmic photograph. We're physical beings and why deny that. So in that sense, it's very sensual to have an object that has the power to communicate some emotion or a state or give you some sense.” GivingBeautifulEmotionDesignPaintingPhotographCommunicateArchitectureSensualCosmicGraphic Author:Michael C. McMillen
“As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.” ThinkingI CanAnimalPlantBiologist Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it has its own realm. It's like when you say "The Arts," those are all the arts, dance, theater, ballet. So within that set of areas of expression, we have visual art and it is visual and it's about looking at something and seeing it in the light with our eyes, maybe touching it or not touching it, or wanting to touch it, not being able to touch it.” ArtEyeLiteratureArt IsWork OutTouchingBalletVisual Art Author:Michael C. McMillen