Jean Giraud Quotes

All art is based on non-conformity.

A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best of both of these worlds.

A true artist is always out of his time.

I feel like I want to make anime that destroys the norms, something that would be strong, even if it is unconventional.

I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

Dada is a state of mind.

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut the space in your life to pursue what most people literally cannot afford a moment to pursue. So, yeah. I think that not only is that the role of the artist, but it might be a requirement.