Quotes by Frank Ocean

If you could see my thoughts, you could see our faces.

No, I dont like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Its cool to be recognised by your peers.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

Sometimes Im fascinated with how famous my work could be while Im not so famous.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If Im watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way theyre painted, could be art. With music, youre a little bit limited, of course, because its only audio.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if Im going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isnt an easy way, but its a rewarding way.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then youre doing good in my book.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that dont necessarily merit fear.

I wont touch on risky, because thats subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that dont necessarily merit fear.

Theres just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

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.

All in all, I just dont trust journalists - and I dont think its a good practice for me to trust journalists.

In art, at a certain level, there is no better than. Its just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her masters with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.