Bella Freud Quotes

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

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

If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

I follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

Through art, you create your own world.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

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