Aldous Harding Quotes

To me, design is very personal. I'm not one of those people who is like, 'This is right, this is wrong.' You should do things that you love, not things that magazines tell you to do.

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to relate to the music as I'm going to play it. I just write. And if it comes out country, it's a country song. The funny thing is, I write all across the board. I just write what hits me at the time.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

I want to find my own rhythm and style. That's probably the harder way to approach it, but I think it will pay off in the long run.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

Our palette is wide and eclectic. That's why we crank out a lot of different styles. To some people, it makes us seem disjointed or scattered. But when we play live, it makes sense to us.

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

Of course, design is a very personal thing: what I like, you may not like.

I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

I make films that are what they are. Some people like them, and some people don't.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

My music is not like everybody gonna love it, it's really what I make of it.

Not everybody loves the way I play.

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.