Lou Doillon Quotes

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.

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

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

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.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.