Daily Inspiration Quote by Kiana Tom

“I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don’t know of” is a soft rebellion against the way modeling flattens people into surfaces. Kiana Tom is speaking from a profession built on being looked at, evaluated fast, and filed into a type. The line works because it’s not a grand manifesto; it’s a gentle insistence on interiority. “Quiet” is doing double duty: it signals privacy (a boundary) and suggests a temperament that doesn’t match the assumed extroverted, always-on glamour persona. It also hints at fatigue with performance, the constant requirement to be camera-ready not just in photos but in public life.

“Artistic” is the strategic counterweight. It’s not just “I’m deeper than you think,” but “I make things too.” That shift matters culturally: models are often treated as muses or mannequins, adjacent to creativity but not credited with it. Claiming artistry repositions her from object to author, from image to imagination. The phrase “many people don’t know” quietly indicts the audience and the industry without sounding bitter; the ignorance is presented as normal, almost expected, which makes the critique sharper.

Contextually, for a model whose recognition is tied to visibility, the most radical move is to point at what can’t be photographed. The quote invites curiosity while withholding full access: you can look, but you still won’t completely know. That’s the power play.