I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.
I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what they've already seen you do.
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.
What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.
When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.
I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.