Bernard Pivot Quotes

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Each production is its own experience.

I want to work with anybody original.

There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Be as unique and original as possible.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Everyone's life experience is different.

Different is good. Different is great!

Both my fathers are unconventional. They are like unicorns or wizards. They are musicians through and through. The way they think is just different.

If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.

The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.

I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different. Sometimes, the things I do haven't ever been done.

Being different gives the world color.

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is so unique.