Jason Blum Quotes

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

I love my arthouse films, and I love taking a chance.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

If you really don't care what an audience thinks, make a home movie and show it on your wall.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.