Peter Weir Quotes

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

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

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

Art can retain its value and even make you some money. If you have your iPhone on you - and you probably do - look for the artist's signature, and use that to look up the artist and get a sense of the piece's value before you buy it.

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

The way I work, and the material we work with, I think if you analyze too much and have too many specific ideas, it just becomes a little bit too superficial, and then performances might become too self-conscious and project relatively narrow things.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?