197 Quotes by Grimes

Ugly girls generally don’t become successful in music. And it sucks because it’s a standard that just exists.

I’m tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they’re having a good time.

Basically, I’m really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

It’s kind of like I’m Phil Spector, and I’m forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there’s always a narrative that is very nonlinear – and that’s the essence of a good music video.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They’re the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

I can tell really early on in a painting if I’m going to toss it or not.

I’m just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.