Bernard Pivot Quotes

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

There's one thing I would like to do on the high street, and that's something different to what's been done before. So, who knows what that could be.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Bringing in innovation and youth is not a bad thing: it is a courageous choice.

We try to bring something different for every tour.

We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.

We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I work harder with each book. But I don't want it to show on the pages, that's for sure.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

I'm always constantly trying to find stuff that's different. It's a way to keep me on my toes and keep me interested and keep me excited about work.

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.

I like the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I just finished I want to work on something different. The next book becomes an antidote to what I did before.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.