boundary-pushing creativity Quotes

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

Art has an obligation to offend

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

With McQueen you have so much at your fingertips. That is what's so incredible about this place. Lee built an amazing house, an English house - and that is very important - where creativity rules, where you can do whatever you want to do for the shows because no one's saying: where's your basic dress, where's your three button jacket?

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

True artists scorn nothing.

There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.