Mark Parker Quotes

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Style is to forget all styles.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

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

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

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

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.