Innovative Perspective Quotes

We don't like trends. We formed initially because we felt we had something of our own to say. What was happening was lacking in certain aspects - it needed a different point of view, a variant on things, but with the same attack, impact.

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

When I think about unique insight, what I think about is here's your opportunity to tell me something that I don't know.

I do represent a different aesthetic to drag, I have a different point of view with everything.

I'm a peripheral visionary.

I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

I can tell you that I like to take a character where everyone may have an idea of what it's supposed to look like and go in a completely different direction with it. I like to make it my own and make it very personal to me, which will end up probably looking completely different than someone else's take on it.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.