Quotes About Innovation

Read it up – you really should. There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.

Some people without possesing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it

My mind rebels at stagnation.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

There is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before.

Tut, tut, we have solved some worse problems. At least we have plenty of material, if we can only use it.

My mind, he said, rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.

We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?

We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place—we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else.

If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.

They made houses so oddly back when Hill House was built, she thought; they put towers and turrets and buttresses and wooden lace on them, even sometimes Gothic spires and gargoyles; nothing was ever left undecorated.

Technology has become the way Western man perceives progress. But technology itself is a reflection of how we see ourselves. If the negativity is in us, it will appear somewhere in our technology.

It seems there's no way of making a living in this world that I haven't tried. The one thing left is matchmaking.

new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from contradictions in the environment.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

For there is a way back from imagination to reality and that is—art.

Vocês críticos, ou outra denominação que dêe a vocês mesmos, ficam envergonhados ou assustados com as extravagâncias momentâneas e passageiras que se encontram em todas as mentes verdadeiramente criativas e cuja duração, maior ou menor, distingue o artista que pensa do sonhador. Vocês se queixam de sua improdutividade porque rejeitam muito cedo e discriminam com demasiada severidade.

The great Leonardo remained like a child for the whole of his life…Even as an adult he continued to play, and this is why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

First published in 1893 and written in collaboration with Josef Breuer (1842-1925)

It's always good to start off anything by breaking a rule.

You can always make something out of nothing.

boredom is key for developing our imagination. A child who is never bored has no space to dream, or to work up a solution to their predicament, and less reason to create.

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.