Honore de Balzac Quotes

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

A true artist is always out of his time.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.

What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?