Axl Rose Quotes

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has passed and I haven't written or made anything. I'm an artist.

I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. From a filmmaker's standpoint, that's so rare and pure in a way that I'm sure is way more complicated than it appears.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.