Jason Robert Brown Quotes

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.

Everyone wants to do only those films which they find interesting. That is the way the industry works.

There will always be some films that the audience would like and some that they don't. But if I start becoming a slave to appreciation, I will be subjecting myself and my talent to one particular type of taste. I don't want to do that.

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

I have nothing to say about the music of others because it's a matter of taste.

The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not trying not to be commercial; I am just doing what I do. I have finely tuned tastes, and that gets prioritized above everything else. That's just how it is.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

I don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just because that's what we like to use.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.