Blaise Pascal Quotes

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

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

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

You know what the material is so that you never play it the same way twice.

I realized I had something new to say, something that wasn't already out there.

If anything, you just let your racket talk - there's no reason for you to talk if your racket can.

I can tell you that I like to take a character where everyone may have an idea of what it's supposed to look like and go in a completely different direction with it. I like to make it my own and make it very personal to me, which will end up probably looking completely different than someone else's take on it.

As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it.

I don't see myself directing the same movie twice.

Vision isn't a template in PowerPoint.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

Art = a mad search for individualism.

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.