Quotes About Innovation

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.

Empiece por aprender a dibujar y pintar como los viejos maestros. Después de eso, puede hacer lo que quiera; todos te respetarán. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

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When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before. ROGER EBERT

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Everyone scoffs at a pioneer. Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out. You can bet his friends never let him live that down. And yet, a million years later, nobody thinks anything of drinking cow juice.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

I always favored the mavericks who challenged my rules. I may have fought them all the way, but I respected them, and, in the end, I listened to them a lot more closely than I did the pack who always agreed with everything I said.

Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1 000 computers.