Quotes About Innovation

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Woo the muse of the odd.

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

What I do, Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion--it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

There is unique pleasure in introducing the bizarre and inconceivable to others.

Strange the dreamer," they called him. "That dreamer, Strange.

Dream up something wild and improbable.

Inspired, Karou said, 'Hey! That's what you should do for your project. Make a giant puppeteer, and you be the marionette. You know? You could make it so that when you move, it's like, I don't know, reverse puppetry. Has anyone done that before? You're the puppet, dancing from strings, but really it's your movements that are making the puppeteer's hands move?

It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop a dreamer from dreaming.

Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

He, who can create, abhors destruction.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.

We think of photography as the intersection of science and art.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.