Afeni Shakur Quotes

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

Oftentimes, my career as a model is based around glamour or creating a fantasy world. That in itself is not a bad thing, as I think art and inspiration has its place in society.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I love art and fashion.

Artists need to express.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur... that's all me.

Modeling isn't boring.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.

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.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

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