Quotes About Innovation

What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the fall of Athens, of Rome, a long pause will intervene, caused by the exhaustion of consciousness itself. Humanity, to rejoin the past, must invent a second naiveté, without which the arts can never begin again.

Seduzidos pelo demônio do Inédito, esquecemos rápido demais que somos os epígonos do primeiro pitecantropo que se pôs a refletir.

Être moderne, c'est bricoler dans l'incurable.

A mesure que l'art s'enfonce dans l'impasse, les artistes se multiplient. Cette anomalie cesse d'en être une, si l'on songe que l'art, en voie d'épuisement, est devenu à la fois impossible et facile.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

The progress of a science is proven by the progress toward solution of the problems it treats.

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

As long as one remains curious, one makes progress; it is when you think you know everything that you are actually out of date.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

Imagination makes all the difference.

Style isn't what you have---it's what you do with what you have.

Creativity is taking a simple thing and bringing it to life.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing ... a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.

The quaking bystanders in a superstitious age would soon have slain an isolated bold man in the beginning of his innovations.

After all, the original way of writing books may turn out to be the best. The first author, it is plain, could not have taken anything from books, since there were no books for him to copy from; he looked at things for himself.

The English not only possess better machines for moving nature, but are themselves better machines.

Our habitual instructors, our ordinary conversation, our inevitable and ineradicable prejudices tend to make us think that "Progress" is the normal fact in human society, the fact which we should expect to see, the fact which we should be surprised if we did not see. But history refutes this. The ancients had no conception of progress; they did not so much as reject the idea; they did not even entertain the idea.

Imagination is the air of mind.

We must regard the raw material, as I have called it, of civilization as being now, in all probability, at its best, and henceforth for the amelioration of mankind we must look to the perfection of manufacture.

The greatest works which the world has seen have not been dedicated to an unknown posterity, but have been produced to satisfy the daily needs of their age, and have, therefore, of necessity conformed to the tastes, and usually to the fashion and the prejudices, of the period which gave them birth.

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.

Begin with another's to end with your own.