Urmila Matondkar Quotes

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

Music, at its very best, is dangerous.

I like to draw, and my drawings are what yell and scream for me.

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

My music is definitely very personal. The songs are about moments, snapshots of everyday life, and about having one's say, or at least feeling like one has had one's say.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.

Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

One never paints violently enough.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.