Kerli Quotes

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.