Ron Pope Quotes

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

My art completes my life.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

I've always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.