Christian Slater Quotes

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.

I wrote a lot of 'Driving on the Rim' by giving myself the gift of being just as eccentric as I felt like.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I'm just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

The freedom of every artist is essential.