Octavio Paz Quotes

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different. Sometimes, the things I do haven't ever been done.

There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

I never do the same thing twice.

I like things that don't go together.

I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change stuff up.

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.

Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .