Brian Eno Quotes

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

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

I'm trying to make something every time that feels new and surprises people. Hopefully at least one person. But it's not like I turn it off. I don't make a movie and then go back to my normal life. When I'm finishing one movie the next day I'm thinking about the next one.

It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

You can put me in anything and I will make it better.

Impact is just always improving at all angles. There is a lot of creativity and thought that goes into everything.

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

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

You don't always have to start over to create an emotional reaction to your product. It's always powerful to deliver a breakthrough, but there's also a true art to making something great even better.

I love recreating, and I love elevating - anything I do I want do ten times better every time.

For me to be creative, I have to have peace.

I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.