MNEK Quotes

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

I love to be creative.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.