Rachel Morrison Quotes

I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It's not unified.

When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.

The artist is a combination of what's happened to them in their lives and how it's filtered through the way they think. That's what makes me different than Samantha Brown or Anthony Bourdain.

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

Making art is different for everyone.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes we think that we do. But within that, the most important part is that even though we're influenced, what are the levels of invention that we carry forth even as we've been influenced by something that's come before?

All my work comes out of my life.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.