Shawn Mendes Quotes

I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

We don't make music - it makes us.

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.

I just wanna be a good artist.

I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

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

It's cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they're not being used for 'Euphoria' every day. I'm trying to find a new rhythm as to how I'm going to externalize my artistic energies. It's a moment of re-formation.

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.

I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.

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.