Eden Robinson Quotes

There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

What I've learned and all of us have learned is: You can't force art, and there's no way you could force somebody to do something that they didn't want to do in this line of work.

My biggest obstacle is trying to keep the music pure to what I want to release. I don't want any corporate suit telling me what story to tell.

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

I just go in the studio and do what I love to do. People will be people, they'll come and go, they'll like you then not like you, I just try to stay true to myself first and that's what most important because that way when you are successful you can stand up and say look, I did it my way and I did it the way that I wanted to do it.

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from the same cultural, ethnic, or religious background as the subjects they portray in order to be qualified to portray those subjects. I believe that compassion and empathy should cross all of those category barriers, and the conversations art creates can be inflammatory initially, but I think are most often constructive and healing in the long run.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song.

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.

I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.