I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
