Elle King Quotes

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time I spend in music the more time I feel I understand it; or at least I understand where I stand amongst the industry and my identity within it all.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I think, even when I was little, there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist. My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play Chopin. It might seem that they involve different skill sets, but I don't think that's true: whether playing Ives or Bach or Beethoven, you must bring the same imagination, the same sensitivity, and an ability to deal with same kinds of musical problems. The method behind my madness, anyway, is to keep plugging away at this idea.

I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.