FKA twigs Quotes

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

You need that marketing power. You need to go do the interviews. You need to put yourself out there and risk and be open to the fact that people are going to not like you, and they are just going to rip you apart, and whatever you say in an interview can get quoted out of context.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

Being a public figure, you cannot make everyone happy. Some people will criticise your actions, and I cannot stop expressing my opinion based on that.

Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

I just want to work and have the freedom to put my voice out there, and I want to interact with my fans and my followers.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.