Kesha Quotes

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

Art should be able to be innovative without compromising itself. That's why I believe artists should have bigger preoccupations than checking the price tags on their work or becoming curators' darlings.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

Artists need to express.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

Making art is different for everyone.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.