Guy de Maupassant Quotes

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

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.

Every man is an artist.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.

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

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.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

Even I have certain depictions that I personally don't like, but I don't believe artists should necessarily follow a particular person's preference. They should focus on the things they like and follow their own desires.

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

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.