Ayad Akhtar Quotes

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things.

Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.