Young Thug Quotes

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.

I can concentrate on my art.

You don't get any mixtapes, you know, 'cause I don't like my voice in there. I want to be that, but that's just not me, you know. And I'm very impatient; if I don't do it right, I'll be like, well, 'Ok that's the best I'm gonna do it.' Because I feel like if you take too much time on something, you lose the motivation for it.

A lot of artists need structure.

Yeah, you always have to be there and remind people of you. It's complicated when you do music, or when you do anything in general. You need time. I don't know if it's because of the weather or what, but [Canadians] seem to have a relationship to time that I like very much.

Everything I make starts very personally.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

I have only so many songs to choose from when I'm deciding on the album. So I learned that I'm a little slow as far as dishing out music, but I learned to be patient with myself and not rush anything.

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot of people.