Artist Quotes by Chris Martin

10 Artist quotes by Chris Martin

Chris Martin’s musings on the artist’s journey come in a tidy set of statements, each tinged with his characteristic optimism. This brief selection gives a glimpse of how the Coldplay frontman frames creative purpose.

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Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

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I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

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As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something…

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In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what…

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Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or…

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I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art.…

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All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here…

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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra…

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There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very…

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All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to…

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I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes…

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What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is…

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Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

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There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

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I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history…

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You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

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The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic ideal that…

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I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away…

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The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all…

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In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the…

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All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and…

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