Kesh Quotes

If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.

When I get into a zone, I obsess and I don't care about anything else. I have to make the work.

I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

My entire career comes from the power of social media and the way I've utilized those spaces and interacted with people across the world.

I created my own space, which was called the cave. It was a live/work space in downtown Los Angeles on 7th and Spring. When I lived there it was quite derelict. I got this massive space and half of it was my bedroom and the other half of it was the back room - no [natural] light, all fluorescent lights.

I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.

Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.

Social media is the basis of my career. Since I was a kid I've always used the Internet as a space to express myself creatively.

Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.

The way I view the works, they're more like feelings than anything else.

I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.

Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.

Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

My fans - I hate the word fans ... my supporters - it's an international following that isn't from being in London and existing on the "scene." It came from being on the Internet, from being a teenager communicating with different artists, showing who I am, who KESH is, as well as connecting with other people around the world doing similar things.