Brian Eno Quotes

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

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

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

The art world is filled with vibrancy.

Young people can create beautiful things.

There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it, you know that's what it is. It's magic.

I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.

I don't want to design something that everybody else would do. I want to design something that's bigger or better or funnier or more beautiful.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.

I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.

I'm a creator at heart.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.