I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
Interpretation
Creating art can lead to both great achievements and deep personal struggles.
In this quote, Frank Ocean reflects on the dual nature of artistic expression, highlighting that while creating impactful works can be considered a gift, it often comes with significant emotional and psychological costs. The act of sharing one's creativity can elicit both joy and pain, underscoring the sacrifices artists endure in pursuit of their craft.
In practice
In a speech about the challenges of artistic expression, one could mention this quote as a reminder of the personal sacrifices artists make.
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.
I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
If they say they don't like the way I play Beethoven, then I can swallow that, and maybe they're right. But if they don't like what I've written, then it's about me.
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