Quotes About Authenticity

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Art should never be popular.

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

Don't be cool. Like everything.

I cut fake people faster than Bugatti reaches its 100 miles speed. I often tell myself, this is called "Art of Living".

Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

every good artist paints what he is