Claude Debussy Quotes

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.