Quotes About Art

I think all my videos suck.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.

Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really.

I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.

Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.

I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.

Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.

I've always worked from images that already exist in our culture, and I just tweak them - I photograph my vision/interpretation of things that already exist, and I take it to the extreme. And then I make paintings or videos.

Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.

I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me anymore. I am in charge of my destiny.

I love narrative videos, but sometimes I think they can limit a listener's experience of a song.

We take the art seriously. We take communicating it seriously. And maybe we took ourselves a little too seriously in the beginning. Sometimes I watch the videos, and I think, 'Yeah, you could've relaxed a lot in the 'I Alone' video,' you know?

Music videos are really expensive, and if I mess it up, it's like, 'Oh, there goes 15,000 dollars,' you know?

2018 was an amazing year for me, and music has changed so much: the way you can release it and the ways you can create art around it, the videos, the ways fans can interact, tour in new places.

There's a lot of variety in our gigs, our records, our mixtapes, and our videos.

I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.

I don't watch a whole lot of television, to be honest, but I do miss music videos.

I think music videos in particular and film in general - it's really good at communicating tone and feeling.

Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there's so much potential in music videos.

The videos are definitely as important as the music.

I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something.