Corin Nemec Quotes

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.