Margaret Keane Quotes

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

My art completes my life.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

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.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

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

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I make music because I like making music.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I'm just happy I got to express who I am as an artist and touch people's hearts.