creative intent Quotes

It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It's supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn't laugh. They shouldn't laugh.

So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry.

Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

I'm not making films just to be bold.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

I want my music to be beautiful.

When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

There's always a message in my music, you just gotta be able to just sit there and be open-minded.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.

What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.

Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time.