Ari Aster Quotes

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

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've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

All good art is an indiscretion.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

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.'

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.