Henri Matisse Quotes

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

I'm not the average artist.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

Making art is different for everyone.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

Every man is an artist.