Peter Zumthor Quotes

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

Be it a musician or an artiste, everybody likes to be in their comfort zone because that's where you are most happy.

There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

When I write a movie, I write it for me.

I'm hoping that people will love the music, but at the same time, the most important thing to me is that I love the music.

It kind of feels good to make something that you're proud of and it's also very real to you.

I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this.

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?

I play music but only for myself. For my ears only.

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.