Andres Serrano Quotes

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

I think, as an actor, you are constantly playing other people. I would like people to get to know me on a more personal level.

I think my music is more personal than most of the music I'm hearing.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.