Auguste Rodin Quotes

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Even if we didn't make records, we would have done it on the side for fun. Like, some painters sell their work; others just keep it - they love to do it whether they get paid or not.

You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.

Writing is its own reward.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Painting completed my life.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for.

You create content because you love it, not necessarily because you're looking for fame or know what it will potentially lead to.

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.

I'm really an artist. I really do this. I don't need the money. It doesn't matter to me.