Doug Aitken Quotes

And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling of my life with art but a divine accident.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

I think the range of my life shows in my work.

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

Everything I make starts very personally.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

Every good painter paints what he is.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.