Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

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

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I don't necessarily think that having more money helps make you make a better film. Sometimes having less money is better. You're forced into being more original; you're forced into hearing something versus seeing it.