Melanie Martinez Quotes

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.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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

Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

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

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

Whether I moved people to throw punches or cry, I did that through my art and what I do. I would never take that experience away to race against a speedometer. Or play on a team.

When you have a relationship with music, and it's that deeply a part of your life, it's so much more than a career choice for me. It's an extension of who I am.

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

The Malayalam audience knows me as an art film actress, and I am fine with that because I know that such films come from the heart. It's difficult to do them, but the satisfaction you get is immense.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.

I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

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've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist, and if I feel the need to be liberated and do the kind of work I need to do, I will.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.