Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

Even American artists are terrorized by market forces. If one can't see the films, my wings are clipped. I am no longer concerned about this, because I'm focused on making films. Perhaps one day someone who discovers sunken treasures will reexamine my 35 or 36 films - I hope it will be 40 or 50 before I die.

If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my artistic pace and not fear I wouldn't have money to live on.

My ambition is we want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create, and if it takes them five years to sit down and make the album they want to make, they should be able to afford that. That's my goal.

There will always be some films that the audience would like and some that they don't. But if I start becoming a slave to appreciation, I will be subjecting myself and my talent to one particular type of taste. I don't want to do that.

Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.

You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills.

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.