That horrible realization that you've just purchased "Select-A-Size" paper towels. Give me billowing @Bounty with Sakura print forever.
--Twitter, March 30, 2015

I see myself as an artist before an athlete. Which is why if I miss jumps, I'm cool with it. But if I miss an arm movement or a look in my eyes or whatever, then I hate it.
--BLADES on Ice magazine, "Johnny Weir Says What's On His Mind" by Michelle Wojdyla, September - October 2005 issue

[F]igure skating is a way that I can release that inner artist in myself at all times while exercising and staying in shape and keeping my ass like a bookshelf, where it should be.

[Pete Dominick: You put...you can...can you...is your ass so tight and firm that you could set books on it? Is that what you're saying? Is that what you’re articulating?]

Oh, yeah, I’ve cracked an apple.
--OutQ SiriusXM, StandUP! with Pete Dominick, October 22, 2014

Inside, I’m definitely an artist, and that’s something that has only helped my skating. But because of all these crazy things I do and say and the way I act, people forget that I’m also an athlete.
--theglobeandmail.com, "Olympian Johnny Weir skates a fine line" by Jeanne Beker, February 26, 2010 

Spent my whole flight designing blazers and passing out. It's amazing when a sketch turns into a Pollock copy due to narcolepsy. ➰
--Twitter, February 26, 2014

[What do you consider to be your greatest achievement?]

Working hard to become the man and artist I want to be and doing it my way.
--blogs.phillymag.com, "15 Questions for U.S. Figure Skating Champ Johnny Weir" by Josh Middleton, May 16, 2013

Figure skating is theatrical, artistic; it's elegant, it's extremely athletic. There's a very specific audience for that. I can say I don't watch football games, so I don't understand why a football fan would come to watch figure skating.
--The New York Times, "INSIDE THE RINGS; Struggling Weir Could End Up Long on Glitter but Short on Gold" by Jer Longman, January 19, 2010

Fashion Week, a week that displays artists and their works, has turned into Skinny People Chasing Cameras Week.
 --fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: Climbin'," February 21, 2013

Kids are horrible to deal with in artistic formats.
--Food Network, Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, Season 2, Ep. 4

[M]y style, personally, is just me being free and trying to express myself, and figure skating is different from other sports because you have the opportunity to be athletic but at the same time you can make it an art form and really present yourself in a different light, and not do things the same way that everyone else does. And that's just always been my philosophy on my skating, and I love being a little bit different than my competitors and it's nice. And I'm hopefully going to inspire younger skaters to be their own skater, and kind of march to their beat.
--Salon.com, "Iceboy cometh" by Dana Vachon, March 16, 2005

When I'm competing I think about showing something gorgeous and having real emotion. I'm not thinking about points and math. Some people say that's my problem. I'm always going to be more of an artist than an athlete. That's my biggest struggle.
--Be Good Johnny Weir, "Here's Johnny," Season 1, Ep. 2

[I]t was as if the bird's spirit had untethered me from my last remaining inhibitions. Both my personality and persona were in serious flux. The Swan took my natural inclination for poetic license and launched it into the realm of pure camp. Freeing my artistic side in a way that flew in the face of my federation's ideals transformed me from the innocent to seriously sassy in what I had to say.
--Welcome to My World

I totally understand that at times I'm very tacky and over-the-top like for Miss USA when I was judging it wearing this big Chris Benz feather coat, and it looked like different colored boas just wrapped around me, and it was pretty ridiculous, and for me, I think fashion's artwork, and for me, I thought it was a beautiful piece of work.
--KFNS (St. Louis, MO), Martin Radio, "Celebrity Phone-in," May 27, 2010

Sixes are great. They're very cool. But you know, as far as the artistic side of the program, I know I have skated it better in the past. If the judges wanted to give me 6.0s, that was their choice and I'm down with that.
--usatoday.com, "Weir defends men's skating title at U.S. nationals" by Anne M. Peterson, January 15, 2005

If America was a more artistic nation that's national pastime didn't involve balls, athletic jock straps, chewing gum and bats, skating would be more appreciated.
--kataniye.com/johnny_weir, Johnny Weir A Rising Star, Interviews from the 2007/2008 season

I am flamboyant, I am artistic, I am different, I'm weird, I have one highlight in my hair. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that, and people that have an issue with me for all the wrong reasons--my flamboyance, my over-the-top gayness, as they would say--it's usually because they have something going on inside themselves...It's not me hurting them.
--NBCphiladelphia.com, "Johnny Weir: I am Flamboyant, I am Artistic, I am Different" video, outtake from segment broadcast January 13, 2012; posted February 14, 2012; video shot January 19, 2012

I like to make an impression, I like to make art. With the new judging system, it’s taking away the individuality of the sport. At the moment, it’s looking a little bit like tennis, just hitting back and forth and nothing changes. That’s a shame to me. 
--phillymag.com, "Johnny Drama" by Amy Strauss, December 20, 2007

It's been some time since I've competed, so my goal would be to be prepared this summer for competition...and just try to get myself skinny and beautiful and artistically prepared for the crazy world that is competitive figure skating.
--press conference announcing his return to competitive skating, January 19, 2012

This is hilarious. Thanks to the artists I love to wear and to whatever crazy squirrel lives in my head and dresses me
--Twitter, September 29, 2011
(on his simultaneously making Out magazine's best-dressed and worst-dressed lists)

I want to be remembered as an exceptional artist and I want to show you can be a figure skater on your own terms.
--tbo.com, "Famed skater to celebrate St. Pete Pride festival" by Cloe Cabrera, June 23, 2011