David LaChapelle Quotes

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

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.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

I would love for my existence as an artist to be completely about my art - not about my social media, or what I do vs what's cool right now, or even whether or not I sound okay in an interview.

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.

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