Quotes About Empowerment

No one has the right to beat you.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

As long as i live i will have control over my being

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.

Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

Always face your challenges head on and make them your strengths.