Frank Ocean Quotes

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

For me, working on original material is very important.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

The way that I write is I just write a ton of music in the background of my life, and then I just bring it into rehearsal. It's, like, 'Okay, guys. It goes like this. Let's smooth it out.'

I be on some, perfecting my craft, just making sure the music is all the way there.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

I've tried to do every album in a different style, which is why I tend to leave a fair bit of time between each one.

I'm about creating a body of work and moving on to the next thing.

I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.

My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album.

In terms of creativity, both are equally satisfying. Music album is for yourself, where you compose songs and stuff like that, and in films, you have a story, characters, and songs penned by someone else.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

As I get older and more mature, my artwork changes accordingly.

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.