Larry Kramer Quotes

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

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.

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

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

Definitely. The way I look is a reflection of who I am. That's how my music is too.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.