Adam Lambert Quotes

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

I wanna make weird stuff.

Living and performing in New York has allowed me to try my weirder and more experimental things.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

Be brave enough to live creatively.

Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.