Marino Marini Quotes

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

You must not get too possessive, especially in our profession, where you know things aren't going to be easy. You can either drive the artist crazy, or you can help him or her grow.

With Alkaline Trio, we are who we are. We never really feel too confined, but when we get together, there is an Alkaline Trio sound, and when I go off and do something on my own, there is an element of freedom that I don't have with the Trio.

It didn't take very long for me to feel like the country radio box was a little too small. So that's what 'Don't Fence Me In' was all about.

Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.

Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting and the limited that allows for the truly infinite. Once all those elements are in place in a story, the brain is truly freed up to imagine without end.

The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show.

The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

So it's a majorly important thing for young artists, as well as older artists like myself, to know that not only do we have the right to say no, but if we don't say no, we're gonna die.

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.

I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.

When you're working in service to a big project, there's always the question of, 'Is there total freedom to do what I think is right artistically, or is this a job?' It's okay for things to be a job. I'm perfectly comfortable working. I don't need to sit around and quench whatever personal artistic thirst I have at all times.

R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.

I don't like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet.

Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.

I've been in situations where someone has told me that my video made them uncomfortable. This was a straight man, and I really don't want to have to worry about making him uncomfortable. I should really be worrying about my own comfort and me putting out the best art that I can.

I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.