Ella Maillart Quotes

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I wrote a lot of 'Driving on the Rim' by giving myself the gift of being just as eccentric as I felt like.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Artists can do whatever they want!

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

In this Nation every writer, actor, or producer ... should be free from the censor.

Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

I write what I like. I don't bother what people think about it.

My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.

People say you're trapped in this genre. You're a horror guy. I say wait a minute - I'm able to say exactly what I think. I'm able to talk about, comment about, take snapshots of what's going on at the time. I don't feel trapped. I feel like this is my way of being able to express myself.

As a film-maker, I certainly don't want to be put into some box.

In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface.

That's what I always wanted Man Repeller to do - to change the way people actually think. Showing young girls that there are no rules.

It's so nice to be totally artistically free.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.

A lot of people probably get the idea that I'm this extremely calculated kind of guy, and in a lot of ways, I am. But when it comes to music or artistic expression, I'm very uncalculated and do things very spontaneous. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't want to do this anymore. I can't just play the same thing over and over; it would drive me crazy.

Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.