Marion Cotillard Quotes

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

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

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I'm interested in creating new work.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

It is always possible to create something original.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.