Bruce Nauman Quotes

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.