David Longstreth Quotes

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

There is always space for good music.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

Music is the perfect type of art.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

I like working with creative people who are receptive to new ideas, who want to do things that are different, who want to create films of a different mould.

Other people might buy a Rolls-Royce. I'd rather encourage people to be creative.

It's important to be unconventional.

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.

Makeup and beauty is essentially art so I really can't say that I dislike any trend. I love seeing innovation and creativity. It feeds my soul!

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

We don't want to do what everyone else does. We want to create trends. We like to think outside of the box.

Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it's another thing to bring them together seamlessly and make them coherent.