Karlheinz Stockhausen Quotes

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.