Florian Schneider Quotes

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

I believe my hologram might be as good as me.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the grandchild. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

I think the beauty of the film industry is that if another person tries to become another person or act like another person or imitate another person, they don't really get too far. When that person starts to realize who they are and what they can bring to the table, they start to blossom and grow. With that, it's not so much me looking towards my predecessors who have paved the way in the industry - it's more getting inspired. I get little bits and pieces of what I can take from any and everybody.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.