Kelela Quotes

It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.

My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the way you appear.

The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Style is character.

I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

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.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

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

I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker - in which every shot has a great idea in them.

Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.