Todd McFarlane Quotes

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

We have to change.

I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

I take things that already exist and just push them.

The best sequels throughout time keep what you really like about the first thing, but they aren't afraid to do their own thing for the next season and kind of grow, in a way.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

Musically, between me and my fans and also me and my team, who between management and record label have always just let me be me, it's fun to pave a path. It's fun to feel like you're doing things your own way. So in that regard I haven't had to worry about any bar but my own.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.

A change is as good as a rest.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

All art is based on non-conformity.