Francoise Sagan Quotes

You really can't bring about anything new with art.

There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

'Human Giant' was a kind of lightning in a bottle. A rare opportunity for us to write and create our own sort of thing, with very few restrictions.

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

I have always chosen subjects which are little different, and not subjects that you see. That challenges me and the actors who work in the project.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but in our industry, people seem to forget that sometimes.

I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.

I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

The artist is called a creator.

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.

It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every kind of wall, to look at ourselves and examine who we are and just get deeper insights into what makes us human beings. Anything that could possibly prevent that in our near future horrifies me to no end.

I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitations where there should be none. I know there are things I wouldn't write about, but that shouldn't be the case. You should be able to make a song out of anything, out of any situation.

The truly original artist invents his own signs.

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.