Anthony Caro Quotes

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

My style evolves day by day; I love change.

I can be very modern and experimental.

When you think 'Peaky Blinders,' when it first began it got mixed reviews and people didn't know what to do with it, and it was like: 'Why is there modern music on this?' So I think whenever you do something different you're going to get that response.

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

I'm always looking for a chance to do something different. I don't necessarily want to repeat myself, at any time, and I don't want to just do the same guy, over and over and over again. I want to be able to do different things and to evolve and constantly try to find those roles.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.