Carine Roitfeld Quotes

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

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

I am not afraid to experiment - sometimes going beyond what is traditionally beautiful is what makes a great picture.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can give yourself the permission to try and see things differently or create something original, even though you probably won't make anything original for a really long time.

See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

Fans should be encouraged that I want to try different things.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

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.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

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 half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is allowed and everything should be tried and dared... Photography has no rules. It is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it was achieved.

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

I am in a space now where I can try anything; and with Pink Floyd we've always been in a space where we were able to try out anything. I think we were very young then and we were very keen to experiment and try things out. It seems to me that this sort of experimenting is like working yourself towards something and trying to find what you like and what you want.

I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we can alter our body parts, we can act in the most perfect or right way. A lot of that is dangerous because, especially in the world of art, the chief enemy of creativity is being safe. If you're safe, you can't fall and hurt yourself. The older you are, the further down the crash is going to be. But if it works out, the higher the high.