Thomas Couture Quotes

When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

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

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.

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.

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

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

The artist is called a creator.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

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.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.