Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.

Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre.

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

Art is a personal act of courage.

If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail...Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.