Sasha Pivovarova Quotes

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

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

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

When you think 'Peaky Blinders,' when it first began it got mixed reviews and people didn't know what to do with it, and it was like: 'Why is there modern music on this?' So I think whenever you do something different you're going to get that response.

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.

I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.