Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

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

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

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

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

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.'

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.