The Weeknd Quotes

We truly experienced a lot as artists.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

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

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

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.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.

I'm still learning my craft.

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

To a certain extent, just like my children, I nurture my writing until the point when it has to get out and face the outside world, where it takes on a life of its own. That is a purpose of any artist and their art.