You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.
… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
You have to think outside the box.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.
Solutions are not the answer.
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.
Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else probably won't work for you.
The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.
Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.
Americans do not want to think that there is an alternative to what we have. Therefore, as soon as you say 'fascism' or whatever it might be, then the American response is to say 'no' because we lack the categories that allow us to think outside of the box that we are no longer in.
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.
It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
Changes do occur often with such suddenness in ways not foreseen except by isolated thinkers far removed from the consensus of their day.
The inner artist is not the voice of reason. The inner artist can have wild and impossible ideas... The inner artist is not the voice of comfort.
