Brian Eno Quotes

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.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Through art, you create your own world.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

I loved the world of imagination.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

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

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

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.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I try not to spend too much time interpreting my comics for people, because I try to put out there whatever I can, and people can draw whatever conclusions they want.