Artistic Channel Quotes

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.