Aneurin Barnard Quotes

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I prefer writing originals.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

I write the way I write.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

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.