Quotes About Innovation

You don't make art, you find it

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.

Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes roban.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. Picasso

Every act of creation is first of all an action of destruction.

Les bons artistes empruntent, les grands artistes volent.

Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.

In no case does the energy required for synthesis appear to be provided by an influx of fresh capital, but by expenditure.

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être trouvé que ce qui n'a jamais existé encore.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

Ideas are the source of all things

The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

The newest song which the singers have,' they will be afraid that he may be praising, not new songs, but a new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet; for any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State, and ought to be prohibited. So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him;—he says that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. Yes

Everything that is responsible for creating something out of nothing is a kind of poetry; and so all the creations of every craft and profession are themselves a kind of poetry, and everyone who practices a craft is a poet.

We're going to win at space.

does not ingenuity consist in the finding or creating of connections between apparently extraneous orders of ideas?)

A me interessavano di più le storie della chimica solitaria, inerme e appiedata, a misura d'uomo, che con poche eccezioni è stata la mia: ma è stata anche la chimica dei fondatori, che non lavoravano in équipe ma soli, in mezzo all'indifferenza del loro tempo, per lo più senza guadagno, e affrontavano la materia senza aiuti, col cervello e con le mani, con la ragione e la fantasia.

We were taking one step for jocks, one giant leap for jock-kind.

Change is good.

they should invent a car that stays cool inside when it is parked

Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigge than pilates. --Eve

I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin