JR Quotes

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

You cannot play for safety and make art.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money.

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!