Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I'm interested in creating new work.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

I love creative people.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

I admire people who are creative.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

I believe in creative work.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

I don't study; I create.