Roisin Murphy Quotes

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

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.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

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

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.

I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

One of the ways that I think about my being an artist and an actor is... it's an experiment.

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.