Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
You can't force music; It just has to come to you.
Music, the knife without a hilt.
I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.
The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.
I've got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It's a nice, free feeling.
Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.
The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
I never had a budget, I never had a manager, I never had a PR. I never had nothing. I was getting everything straight out the mud.
We create monsters and then we can't control them.
Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.
When I made 'Lil Boat,' my first mixtape, I didn't have a drop date, a due date. I didn't have critics rating on it; I was just making it. And then when I finished it, I dropped it at my own smoothness, at my own pace.
I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.
