Julien Baker Quotes

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.

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

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

I am comfortable doing independent music; it gives me more freedom as an artiste.

There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.