Guillermo del Toro Quotes

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

Just knowing you're putting something out there that could take on a greater life - that's our sweet spot. That's what we try to do.

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

When Wes has a new a project, you know that it's going to be something as different as the previous was from the previous one. Each time, he tries to take you to a country, or a land that is unknown for you and for him, and reinvent this land. That's what he did with 'Darjeeling,' with 'Mr. Fox,' with 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.