George Lois Quotes

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

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

Be brave enough to live creatively.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

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.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

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

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

I don't study; I create.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.