Indigenous American Quotes

“Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

“The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

“That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie

“Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.”
― Buffy Sainte-Marie