Johann Johannsson Quotes

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

It's so important to work with material you can really mold and milk and create and evolve.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

We love experimentation. That's where the gold nuggets come from.

You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.