Juergen Teller Quotes

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

I don't get competitive, really. So I don't know. If I'm excited about something, hopefully someone will think, "Oh right, you should do this." And that's great. I'm not being very articulate about this. I just don't want to do stuff if I'm going to feel bummed out and uninspired.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

The Diesel team has incredible passion. We work for ourselves and design for ourselves. When I see a new watch in our collection, I go crazy. I want one of everything.

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

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

I have been inspired by countless artists over the years, but there's also times when you just gotta make your own inspiration.

I'll remain an individual, and as long as I get excited about something, I'll do it.

To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.