Basil Bunting Quotes

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.

Being different is critical.

I want to express myself but, at the same time, still be special and different.

I'm a little bit of everything. That's what makes Nicky Jam so different from everybody else.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

I wanted to look different. I liked being original.

My style is like no other.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

A lot of times when people get copied, they get copied and washed out. But you can't even duplicate how we do it because it's just so genuine. It's just us.

I've always found a way to stand out from the crowd.

I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.

It's funny: I rarely reference anything, and I'm one of those people that doesn't really spend much time in other people's worlds. I just try and create my own and make it as distinctive as I can.

For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.

I am a unique kind of personage and voice! No one else is like me!

Everybody always going to sound like somebody. You got to separate yourself.

The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.

If you have another actor like Ranveer Singh, same energy and same vibe, you probably won't look at that person. There are a lot of people who can rap, it's just a different personality or sound that gets noticed.

I feel like I wanted to run differently than everybody else did. And I want to do things that everybody else hasn't done.

I always aspired to do something different.