Tilda Swinton Quotes

Future's not everybody. The people who are taking my style are like my babies. I've got a tribe of kids that want to be like me... But I understand why people want to imitate the things I do. They're dope. It comes naturally to me. My fans can expect greatness. If I wasn't me, I would want to be me.

I'm a huge fan of Beyonce for so many reasons, and not the reasons that most people are. There's the obvious reasons - she's gorgeous, she's talented or whatever, but I think she's really super-consistent.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

Unless you have manned [space] travel, you don't stir the imagination of people.

I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

I like what Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina are doing, but I think I'm just trying to do something different.

I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.

I'm heavily influenced by a lot of people like Dre, Pharrell, and Kanye. They're all big-time tastemakers and trendsetters, just for culture, period. So I strive to do that as well.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

I can't be Stevie Wonder; I can't be Marvin Gaye, but I can be the foundation that I think withholds that mold.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.