John Galliano Quotes

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live.

I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.

Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity.

I think it's really important, as an actor in this business, to have another creative outlet.

It's cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they're not being used for 'Euphoria' every day. I'm trying to find a new rhythm as to how I'm going to externalize my artistic energies. It's a moment of re-formation.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

What I decided was I'd be happier not being in the confines of a corporate infrastructure producing music. That's when I was free, and it opened up the door to have a different personality and incarnations. That's really when I had success in my music life. I was able to license my music.

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

I used to sing like Nat King Cole. I mean he was the guy when I was comin' up, and you know, man, people used to say of me, "Damn, he sure do sound like Nat King Cole." But there was a day, and luckily for me it was early, when I woke up and asked myself, "Well, when are the ask me to sing because I sound like me?" So my advice is, never do anything that you don't like.

I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.