Peter Hook Quotes

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.