Ryan North Quotes

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

I actually think it doesn't even matter what age you are or what sex - though that does play into it sometimes - you always have to fight in any kind of creative world because nobody knows your own brain and your own creative ideas better than you do.

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

I make music, and if people like it, they like it, and some people won't.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.

I guess my stuff needs to grow on people. Too bad! That seems to happen with all of it.

While I hope that people like my work, I don't think an artist should be afraid of ­people not liking his work.

People have got their opinions, and you can't please everyone.

My grandmother has a great aesthetic sense. Unfortunately I didn't inherit it.

I'm my own favorite artist, but I love everybody's music.

Of course, design is a very personal thing: what I like, you may not like.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.