artistic self-criticism Quotes

The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.