Quotes About Innovation

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grandperes ont toujours tort.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before.

et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. And he sets his mind to unknown arts.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.

And he sets his mind to unknown arts

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly Contrives. In all creation, be assured, There is no death - no death, but only change And innovation; what we men call birth Is but a different new beginning; death Is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps This may have moved to that and that to this, Yet still the sum of things remains the same. Nothing can last, I do believe, for long In the same image.

et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat.

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes / And he applies his mind to unknown arts

You've got to try and take things to the next level, or you'll just get stuck in a rut.

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs, sir.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ? Pablo Picasso

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes