Frank Frazetta Quotes

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

It's just I do things differently and I want people to appreciate music for what it is, and not because of a story.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

You should do the sound that you want and not what others want.