Kalup Linzy Quotes

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place.

I've been in some biennales, and some I haven't. I always like the idea of how you meet the curator, hang out, and figure out who you want to work with.

If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redundant.

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.

If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.