Joss Whedon Quotes

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.

I'm not the average artist.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.'

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

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

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with you, man?' But that's what I need in order to be who I am.