Marcel Dzama Quotes

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing 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 write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.

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

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

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.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

It is the greatest reward for me to share my story, my art, and my work. And people receiving that and being thankful and grateful, it once again resonates deep within because it reminds me that I am so much bigger than being a drag performer.

My art completes my life.

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I will preach with my brush.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

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.