William Albert Allard Quotes

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

As an artist, I often wonder what my purpose is or why I do what I do.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.

If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I enjoy modeling. I feel that acting is more fulfilling for me, and you definitely have a lot more to contribute as an actress than you do as a model, but that being said, when I shoot with a really incredible photographer, it's exciting and inspiring.

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently.

For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It's like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He's able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way.

I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

I'm an artist in my heart.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

My art completes my life.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and has no real control or isn't willfully producing a certain kind of thing. It is labor-intensive, and it is research-intensive. You are making one decision after another, trying to get at something you think is important.