Kiana Tom's Quotes

I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.

Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.