Never Fear Truth | NFT Art by Johnny Depp | Full Interview | Pantheon Art

In my life, I've always had art. Long before acting, long before the music, it became an obsession and it became necessary for me. I was always painting, but just, you know, you paint it and you put it off to the side, you know. For many years, I limited myself away from any sort of painting or showing any paintings because the idea of making it or succeeding, having success in one field and then using that to instigate some other thing altogether, I was afraid of that, you know. I had far too much respect for art to try to put myself into that world just because people knew of me as an actor. I didn't like that. It didn't sit well with me, but what I did was I limited myself and that's something that no one should ever do. No one should ever do. There's only so many years on this planet now. Marlon Brando said, life is a bird song. John, life is a bird. He's right. So basically, what happened was after so many years of limiting myself, not allowing myself to show anything that I painted, though I painted for many years and always stuck with it, I just didn't want to show it. And I think now is a very good time to embrace the fear or whatever and show it. So to kick things off, I've decided to release a series of NFT portraits of dear friends of mine who've mattered to me a great deal. They will be released under the title Never Fear Truth. This creed of never fear truth has always been very, very important to me and somewhat of an obsession, but it has never been more important to me than in recent years. I think when I'm looking into the face of Hunter Thompson or his friends, these people that I've cared about so much, there is without question truth in what happens in these portraits. And alongside these portraits, I've included one of my daughter, Lily Rose, one of my old dog, Moe, who passed away, and the bunny man who was essentially, well, not completely inspired by a that my son Jack made when he was about five years old. By creating these portraits, what it does is it allows me to give back and the ideas to start a community. And on top of that, in particular, it allows me the opportunity to support a couple of very important organizations who have been very, very special and important to me and my family. One is the Grey Norman Street Children's Hospital and the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Ultimately, having said all that, what I truly, truly hope is that you enjoy the work, that you take something from it, even a smile.