Virginia Woolf Quotes

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

When Wes has a new a project, you know that it's going to be something as different as the previous was from the previous one. Each time, he tries to take you to a country, or a land that is unknown for you and for him, and reinvent this land. That's what he did with 'Darjeeling,' with 'Mr. Fox,' with 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the hallmarks of what I do, if indeed it is, I still think if you have something original in what you do and you keep doing that, then you're all right.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

I don't see myself directing the same movie twice.

I've never understood why someone does a cover of a song just exactly the same. If you do something, do it a little different so people have a new experience.