Nate Ruess Quotes

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

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.

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

It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.

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

I think any artist wants their artist to be seen and appreciated and enjoyed by as many people as possible.

You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you can learn anything you need to know about filmmaking- that's camera, sound, celluloid, video at this point- in four hours. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with it... It has to do with what you want to say. If you feel you have something to say, you'll find that way to get it said, on film, and not let anyone or anything chip away at that or tarnish it, because it's something special and precious.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

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.

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

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.