Steve Jobs Quotes

Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people who will object to it.

If you look over the history of cinema, changes happen when directors embrace new tools and technology and think outside the box.

Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.

I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same DNA as you, with the same experiences. There is something that you were meant to do as an individual. You have some kind of creative skill. It can either be creating your own business in some level, being a writer, an artist, whatever, or it can even be working within a company, but from within that company you're creating something.

I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)

I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired by, is because there is a certain amount of instability constantly, and I think that mirrors the instability of any given life.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.