Joanna Scott Quotes

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

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

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.

Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

It's very difficult to be original.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

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.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.