Anish Kapoor Quotes

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

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

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

You make you work for yourself. It's the feeling of, 'If nobody ever saw it, that'd be fine, too.'

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

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.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

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.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

I don't do any art to please any people.

I made music just for myself.

I think the biggest reward is not physical. I rather obtain things spiritually. I mean, it's so cool to be acknowledged by the public, but that's not my goal. That's not why I make music. I would do it anyway, if there was no reward.

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

I only want to make music I like and that I can enjoy myself and be proud of.

To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.