Vic Mensa Quotes

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Creative instinct is personal.

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Make good art.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the furniture around to create space on the floor, throw down some sheets and indulge in any form of art that I could get my hands on.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.