Charli XCX Quotes

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care about. But I realized that none of those were my voice or representative of what my thoughts and feelings were.

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.

I try to place what I creatively have to say above who I am.

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

You can only write your own vision.

I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an artist before you let other people tell you who you are.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing.

Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative process. I feel like, if I spend a lot of time trying to worry about whether it will appeal to everyone and who will like it and who won't, and I try to please everyone, I'll just spread myself too thin and lose my mind.

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

Talented people have to do what they do. Someone can criticize but you do what you do.

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.