Creative Boundary Quotes

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.

No actor can rise above the script of the film.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side. So you had a strict boundary, and that was something I'd grown up with as well. Also, you were able to have different moods on each side, which was nice.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.

I like work that pushes the barrier of bad taste.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity.

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.