Brandon Boyd Quotes

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

It's always been a mantra to me, when making music or creating art, that you have to be vulnerable.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability.

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.