JPEGMAFIA Quotes

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.

Art should be able to be innovative without compromising itself. That's why I believe artists should have bigger preoccupations than checking the price tags on their work or becoming curators' darlings.

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.