Quotes About Authenticity

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.