Domenico Dolce Quotes

All art is based on non-conformity.

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

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.

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

Balance is the enemy of art.

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.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

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

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

You may or may not like 'Baaz.' But you will definitely say I have done something different.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

Creativity is making a good pass at the right time... but it can also come from deeper, there should always be a balance.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.