John Polson Quotes

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

I feel like there's an obligation - this sounds terribly pretentious - if you're an artist, to share your own experience in a way that's truthful and honest: 'This is what I have to share; this is my life.'

Those trying to drag me down through piracy, I want to tell them that I will somehow achieve what I want. I am focused enough to achieve what I want and give the audience what I can.

I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.

I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

It is unethical to promote old songs sung by new artistes, and the government should ban these things.

Two things - one is obvious: always keep making. The second thing, with regard to music videos specifically - the music video industry can be a place that takes advantage of young freelancers and filmmakers. Make sure you're making stuff that you're proud of and you can get behind.

Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.

It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.

Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.

What matters to me as a creative artist is the credibility of the production house, the honesty in the script, and the way the filmmaker has conceived the characters in the narrative.

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

The end of culture is right living

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.