Patrick Stump Quotes

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

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

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.

When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

I am not a person who just wants to be an actor. Do you know what I mean? I am an artist who wants to speak to people through his work: through his vessel.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

I treat my projects as art.

My art completes my life.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.