Mark Foster Quotes

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience.

I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end of the day I want it to be remembered for its artistic value as well as its entertainment value.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

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

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

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.

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

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.

I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.