Patrick Ness Quotes

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

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 just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

I love being creative in all forms.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.