Bat for Lashes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Artist #Expression #Desire
I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Thinking #People #Want
We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Energy #Floating #Soup
I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Dad #Halloween #Party
Ive hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you dont want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Hair #Clothes #Long
I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Naked #Body #Paint
They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low
-- Bat for Lashes

#Lows
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Dad #Dramatic #Spare Time
It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to see what third entity is created! I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Beautiful #Feelings #Historical
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. Its 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.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Artist #Unique #Needs

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