Maurizio Cattelan Quotes

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble.

Rap has always been about using your talents for doing more.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

What I am after, above all, is expression.

Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

Creative instinct is personal.

At a pretty young age, I wanted to do something with my life that would help people. I've been that way for quite a while.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

I'm on a mission to love, give as much as I can, and support people who make a difference.