Chris Lowe Quotes

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

That's always the time to quit - when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.

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.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

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.

I haven't read a book in a very, very long time because, when I'm writing, I don't like to see other people's work. I don't want to see something great and not be able to use it, and I don't want to have any subconscious influences.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.