Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

Rhianna don't want you to give her what you think that she wants. She needs you to give her something that's fresh. So you have to bend your voice and bend your personality and bend the music to make sure it sounds like it's new to everybody.

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.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

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

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

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

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

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

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

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.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.