Quotes About Boundaries

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

Art chooses its constraints.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.