Sara Zarr Quotes

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

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.

We've been fully involved in making our music, and to be personally involved is what we really asked for.

I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my own way

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.