Nikita Dragun Quotes

I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.

I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

If you can't stop singing as you walk through the halls of your house, or you love performing in your local talent show, YouTube is such a good platform to share that side of you. It's a place for people who have passions, and the audience is people who appreciate those passions.

I think it is always important to showcase your talent in different ways.

I want to showcase my talent, I'm not just a grime MC, I'm an artist.

I just want to be the best I can and create my own style of game.

Be the artist you were born to be.

It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

I feel dance and pop music genres are extremely female and extremely gay. When it comes to art and pop culture, queers are f - king weirdos. We don't have gender rules that tell us what we can and can't be. We just make it up as we go along. We have full creative license to be whatever we want to be.

I never force myself to dance or sing.

True artists scorn nothing.

But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

The great artist takes what he needs.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.