Quotes About Authenticity

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

I don't want to sit there and be like, 'Oh, I don't care what the audience thinks.' It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.

you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Words mean nothingActions are everythingExpect nothingAppreciate everything

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'

The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

You couldn't make up something that looked so right.

Words may be false and full of art Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am.