Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.