Adam Granduciel Quotes

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

The style depends on the subject.

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

There's no way for me to anticipate what people will like or not like.

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

No one can deliver visual content like Getty Images.

I've always been a color person, whether that's through my clothes, hair, or music.

Of course I want to do films that I feel I like and I feel like are either entertaining or different sort of value attached to it which I personally lean towards, and that's how I make my choices.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that none of us knew what was a hit and what wasn't. So I thought if I just write what I like, why shouldn't people like what I like?

I don't expect every movie to be done exactly the way I would have done it.

I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.

there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will.

Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."

There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean, they're lovely, but so many people are affected by different people and different things in such different ways. And yeah, it's immeasurable.