Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.

I like being on a set where you can make decisions and everything is involved and are happy to work together to make the best work. For me, it's all about making the best work and creative people working together and all being respected and all having their opinions of what gives it the best quality is important.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I have to be where the best work can be done.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

It's nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.