Tash Sultana Quotes

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has a tranquilizing, paralyzing effect. Artists are individuals. They have ideas, and the conventions for one's self as an individual are not for a group. There are always those who follow the group, but they belong in the margins. I refuse to be placed within, or added to, one particular school.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I'm not the average artist.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else.

So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer.

I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.

Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

I don't think that people should be confined to any particular aesthetic.

People keep trying to say I'm one type of artist and I'm just not.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.