Nipsey Hussle Quotes

The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an unappealing landscape for artists.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.