Quote

I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, Nothing good comes easy. So, I took a plunge and started my first animation stint in 2003.

St. Lucia

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

St. Lucia
Age: 54
Musician
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
St.Lucia
Difficult
Cartoon
Easy
Animation
Comes
Seemed
Firsts
Took
Nothing
Told
First
Loved
Stint
Good
Started
Cartoons
Always
Process
Plunge

More quotes by St. Lucia

Image
I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.
St. Lucia
Image
A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.
St. Lucia
Image
I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.
St. Lucia
Image
The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.
St. Lucia
Image
[I] was always my dream to attend the Art Institute. I have always had this zeal to become the best that I can be and I saw that this institution will act as an avenue to me achieving that goal. I applied to the institution and got accepted based on my impressive portfolio.
St. Lucia
Image
Most of the writing that I do is a complete train of thought process. I'll just be walking down the street or sitting on the toilet or whatever and something will pop into my head and I'll record it on my phone and then over the next little while it'll develop a little more in my head.
St. Lucia
Image
I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.
St. Lucia
Image
Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.
St. Lucia
Image
We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents life and the brushstroke represents the steps we take in life.
St. Lucia
Image
What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.
St. Lucia
Image
A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the beginning. That kind of thinking made me a little self-conscious because I was suddenly having to judge what I was doing early on in the process.
St. Lucia
Image
I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.
St. Lucia
Image
There are literally endless options and possibilities, and often no clear or obvious path in how to make that choice, and nobody to tell you to go this way or that. But somehow, it works itself out if you trust in the process, which is often easier said than done.
St. Lucia
Image
We should not let negative influences get to us.
St. Lucia
Image
Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.
St. Lucia
Image
A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.
St. Lucia
Image
Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.
St. Lucia
Image
When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.
St. Lucia
Image
I also got encouragement from my teachers at primary school but one person in particular who had a significant impact on my lean towards art is Mr. Luigi St. Omer. Mr. St. Omer was the one who always reminded me that I should not settle for less than greatness in my art. He saw that I had the potential and he helped me develop that talent.
St. Lucia
Image
I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.
St. Lucia