Platon Quotes

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

My work is intensely personal.