I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
![“Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only…” quote by M.I.A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/274/m-i-a-3418_art_now-hip-hop-grime-artists-stormzy-skepta_2579135.jpg)
