Quotes About Innovation

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

Art is stronger than Nature

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.