David Copperfield Quotes

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

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

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

My goal is always to make something unpredictable that feels inevitable in the end. It's getting harder to do that. Audiences are so sophisticated and so smart.

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.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

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.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

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.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.