Quotes About Authenticity

Don't try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.