Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face.

I've been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it's a compliment.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I'm not just a remix guy.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

What I've noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you're representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.

I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an artist before you let other people tell you who you are.

I've always just introduced myself as Adam Copeland. I never really thought too much about it.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

This album is my life, and my life's really not that interesting. It's not "not interesting," but I'm just some dude just like everyone else. But by recording it in an album format, it becomes a product. That's the idea of Built on Glass; it's the relationship between my personal life and the music I make.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.