Reggie Watts Quotes

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.

The title of the movie is open to interpretation.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.

My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I try not to spend too much time interpreting my comics for people, because I try to put out there whatever I can, and people can draw whatever conclusions they want.

There is spontaneity to my work.

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.