FKA twigs Quotes

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

Just write what comes to you.

If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

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

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.