Artistic Limitation Quotes

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the world.

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.

Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

I can't copy nature.

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.