Amaal Mallik Quotes

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

It's so nice to be totally artistically free.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

Artists can do whatever they want!

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

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.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

Unless you write your own movies... you can't really say what you want to say.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

I want to stay away from trends and do what we want to do musically.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Creative instinct is personal.

Through art, you create your own world.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

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.

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

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.