Govinda Quotes

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

Art should be able to be innovative without compromising itself. That's why I believe artists should have bigger preoccupations than checking the price tags on their work or becoming curators' darlings.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.