Richard Diebenkorn Quotes

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.

Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever.

When I started out, the idea of wearing interesting clothes seemed to contradict the idea of being a serious artist. The first Moloko record, 'Do You Like My Tight Sweater?' was kind of a reaction to all that.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

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

I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations.

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

I don't want to only make the movies that studios will greenlight.

I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

I noticed that there were all these kinds of practices in a working set that had to be un-practiced on 'Far from Heaven,' which was so interesting.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

I'm glad I've established this as my zone: 'the taboo breaker.'

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

I wanted to go beyond what K-pop is typically perceived as, and through 'Move' I was able to show a concept that's more edgy, more powerful.

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.