Mary Daly Quotes

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

All art is based on non-conformity.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

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.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

A true artist is always out of his time.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

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