George Lois Quotes

The more established you are, the less likely you are to do something ridiculous, which is one reason I'm proud to put out a wrestling album. If you stop and you go, 'Well, what if people don't like it?,' if you're already established in what you do, that'll strike fear into your heart.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I don't want to do the song-dance formula; there are many people doing it, right?

I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's what I want to do. If it's a challenge and a massive risk and I'm going out on a limb ... those are the ones I want. And they are few and far between. I don't work very much because I'm very specific about what I want to do.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it kill the artist inside of me.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.

When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible mistake. That comes from thinking of yourself as a writer.

I am always scared when I start something new. That hasn't changed.

You do have to challenge yourself. I think scared is a good thing.

We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...