Kate Hudson Quotes

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

Acting is very subjective and one can't be deterred by what people think of your work.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.

I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it.

I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.

There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.

All the art that's in my house is my own, which is nice because I never have to worry about buying it.

Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.

I just do what sounds good to me, and people seem to like it.

Not everybody is going to like your songs. But you probably wouldn't hang out with those people anyway.

A lot of people are like, "How are you going to re-do it?" I'm not worried about what people are going to say because you know people are gonna be like, "It doesn't sound like this... It sounds like this." I'm just going to make music that I know I'm supposed to make.

Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed so many image models that some people have given up trying to keep track of me. But others have only one or two ways of doing things and are successful with that.