Peter Marino Quotes

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute.

I want to be cutting-edge.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

We're always trying to stay on the cutting edge but also, at the same time, do something that's real. We're never going to do something that's not us.

I can be very modern and experimental.

Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

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 don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.

I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.

Yeah, I co-directed '23.' Yeah, the whole concept of the video... Even with that video, I feel like it's not a video that you can get sick of. You can always go back and watch that and it's fresh.