Wolfgang Tillmans Quotes

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

I always do something that I've never done before.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

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

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

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.