Michael De Luca Quotes

It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.

When I hear other artists that are new and fresh and exciting, then I get excited.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

We like to challenge ourselves, and having new material and presenting it to the world is fun and exciting and fresh.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

When I read something, I want to be surprised. So I read something and go, "Wow, I never, ever would have thought of playing this kind of role. This is exciting me, let's go do this."

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I admire people who are creative.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.