Johnny Flynn Quotes

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

I'm not big on remakes.

I'm from the '80s, man. I got ideas; that's what we do.

I think it's important to show that... you can't be perfect, and you have to embrace the fact that you're original, and it's what makes you interesting.

It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

I don't like the idea of seeing a movie and it feels comfortable because you've heard it before.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

I'm a big believer in puking out all your thoughts in a single sitting and getting some version of the work down, because the alternative just prolongs the agony. The first draft is hideous and ajskdlkdfksjdfslfjk, but it's just a map for where the big blocks go.

I don't want to make a perfect film because perfect films are boring and cold.

It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.

If you repeat what you did in the last tour, the likelihood is it's not gonna be successful twice. People are nostalgic about a particular record, because it's about the time when they were listening to that record. But if you do it again, they're like, I'm not that guy anymore.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

Perfect is boring, human is beautiful

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.

I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me.

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.