M.I.A. Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept.

  M.I.A.

  Art, Nice, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

• Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.

  M.I.A.

  Art, Creativity, People

  Source: thequietus.com

• I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

  M.I.A.

  Art, Hate, Ideas

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

• I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

  M.I.A.

  Art, Luxury, Watches

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

  M.I.A.

  Art, Political, Pieces

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it for the belief and the love of art.

  M.I.A.

  Fashion, Art, Stars

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

  M.I.A.

  Art, New York, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

  M.I.A.

  Art, War, People

  Source: thequietus.com

• What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

  M.I.A.

  Art, America, Mad

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin