Mark Foster Quotes

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

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

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.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.

My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

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

As an artist, I often wonder what my purpose is or why I do what I do.