G-Dragon Quotes

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

I am only an artist.

We make pretty uninteresting reading, I suppose. I mean, we're just another group making records, aren't we?

I think you shouldn't get my music confused with who I am or who we are, because Yung Lean, from the beginning, is like a character created by me. Yung Lean was everything that Jonatan wasn't. And so me, as a person, and my views on things are certainly different than Yung Lean's views, so you should definitely not get those two mixed up.

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.

I'm Irish. I don't know how to take a compliment.

I wanted to go on a project which shows the mixture of Chae rin and CL, not just CL on stage or in a music video.

I feel that Britain is a rather self-deprecating nation: you're almost considered egotistical to say you're good at anything.

In the scheme of things, I'm just a guy who gets my picture taken.

My cultural identity is obviously a huge part of my design aesthetic.

I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person.

People make too big a deal about me.

Generationally, I relate to Basquiat's culture and the essence of his life story.

To me, the term 'best of' is quite embarrassing, I think of Madonna and Bruce Springsteen and all these amazing artists. I don't really see myself in that kind of gang, unfortunately.

I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

I think when people think of music from coming from Oklahoma, they think of Toby Keith or even Garth Brooks or even Woody Guthrie. People think, "Why do we have to just be about the Bible and about football? Why can't we be about something like the Flaming Lips?" And I salute them! I say, "Well, that's great if you want that."

I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women... There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night... Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.