David Longstreth Quotes

Whenever I'm making something, the challenge is always to create something that's interesting for me to listen to.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.

The art world is filled with vibrancy.