Thomas Bangalter Quotes

I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

I'm always looking for something new and interesting to say. And it can't be something I'm directly experiencing.

It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

When you're working with other artists, it's often a mix of your ideas with somebody else's, which can be extremely fruitful. But then it's also interesting to present the completely undiluted vision of what I imagine music could be. I care about both my own music and collaboration equally, and I pretty much split my time equally, as well.