Lisa Kleypas Quotes

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

I think the fact that my parents weren't conventional - especially considering their position - had a big influence on the way that I conduct myself now in design and business. It had a huge impact on my wanting to do something a bit more than just designing a pretty dress and putting it on a runway and making it glamorous.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio films - usually to the consternation of the studios.

My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

It's a Gen X thing to be okay with going unnoticed or unrated or untouched. To be free from strangers' expectations, or anger. People got angry at me when I stopped making music because it seemed I was devaluing everything.

I think there's very little interesting in art that is not transgressive in some way. And I don't think that's a very revolutionary thing to say.

For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up on categories, rules and classification. We love people who break the mould, challenge us and make us think differently.

I like money but I love performance art and it goes hand in hand. I'm not the 'Titanic,' I'm 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' I'm not a blockbuster, I'm a cult classic. I think my strong but cult-like fanbase expects me to challenge norms.

I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point of view.

With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted.

My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

I remember John Waters's 'Pink Flamingos,' that was the film where I realized you could do anything you want - there were no boundaries.

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.

I just go where it feels the most honest to go; then I deal with people thinking it's weird afterwards.

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.