Mac Miller Quotes

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend towards what the industry was telling me to do and after you mature at a certain time in your life, you come into your own...your own niche, your own personality, not only as an artist but as a person.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I think the range of my life shows in my work.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.