Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

Of course, design is a very personal thing: what I like, you may not like.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

There is no best anything in art.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes, so that it's really left open for a lot of things, even though I remember a specific impression of something I had at the time. I can't say a song is about this or that; in fact, I wouldn't even want to. I just prefer to have people live it anyway they want. Because it's theirs after that. There's nothing I can do about it anymore

I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.

We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.

I do my best; I put out things I believe in and if you don't like it then pass on to something else.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.