Antonin Artaud Quotes

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

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

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

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.