ASAP Rocky Quotes

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result that I found it really difficult in the past to kind of hand off music to another director, 'cause it just ends up being this kind of mid-zone where it's nobody's vision, really.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

The 'Station to Station' film has been fascinating to create. It feels as though it made itself in a way, and after awhile, the film told us what it needed and began to sculpt itself.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes.

I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer.

I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an artist before you let other people tell you who you are.

It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.