Art Quotes

Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

I’m an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

I want to encourage the artists that haven’t made it that social media is the truth. I made it from Instagram to having a most-added song to radio.

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.

Even though Prince wasn’t rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It’s very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It’s not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.