Dwayne Johnson Quotes

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

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

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I don't study; I create.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Creativity takes courage.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.

I don't want to design something that everybody else would do. I want to design something that's bigger or better or funnier or more beautiful.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.