Zachary Levi Quotes

What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.

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.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'

Making art is different for everyone.

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.

Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

Don't worry if people think you're good. Make this your experience. And find out what makes you unique as an artist. You don't get the opportunity to do that as much in the real world.

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.