Justin Peck Quotes

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

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.

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.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but in our industry, people seem to forget that sometimes.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

You cannot play for safety and make art.

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

I don't need to feel 100% safe, but I have to feel like there's room for me to go a little bit insane if I'm going to have good ideas. Because a good idea is a new idea and if you start going around like, "I have this new idea!" most people are gonna be like, "I've never heard that before, that sounds fishy."

Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.