Ed Wood Quotes

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

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

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

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.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer.

I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

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

We are so grateful we are given the chance and the freedom to do what we want, what we want to create, what's on our mind, and that's honestly what we asked for in the beginning of our career.

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

Through art, you create your own world.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.