Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future.

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.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

If you're going to reboot something, reboot it in a totally original way that speaks to a new generation.

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

I feel like the biggest key to longevity is maintaining what's special about yourself but always presenting it in a new way. That way, people can never get tired of you.

In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.

Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

When you work for long, you know things about your craft, but how differently you are going to project it so that it can still look new is what I am constantly trying.

As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it.