Creative Signature Quotes

I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

I like filmmakers where, if their film comes on and you step in halfway through it, you can recognize that, hey, this is a Coen Brothers film. Or, hey, this is a Stanley Kubrick movie. You can recognize some filmmakers. Like, if you put on a Sam Raimi movie, you can tell that it's a Sam Raimi movie pretty quickly. I like a signature style that people can recognize and relate to, and connect with. I think that is part of why we seek out certain directors. We want to see how they view the world.

Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?

Art is the signature of man.

I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist.

I really am in love with the idea of an artistic signature.

That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

What I can offer the game is creating a sound that, when you hear it, you know it's mine.

All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves.

In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.