individual artistic vision Quotes

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.

I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can give yourself the permission to try and see things differently or create something original, even though you probably won't make anything original for a really long time.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.