Quotes About Authenticity

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.

Art never lies, I believe.

I'm a true believer in not forcing anything. I hate forced art, forced anything.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

Art should never try to be popular.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.