Unrefined Art Quotes

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn't do it.

I didn't know what kind of sound I wanted to make. I didn't have no influences. I just heard my voice in the microphone and was like, damn, I like that.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products.

I'm going for something very raw and organic.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

The idea of 'raw' music, to me, is honesty: getting people to feel you with the least amount of production possible, the shortest distance traveled emotionally, sonically.

Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.