Quotes About Innovation

All classicism presupposes a romanticism that went before.

Whether in science or the arts, if we look for the source of an achievement we can observe that what a man does either repeats or refutes what someone else has done — repeats it in other tones, refines or amplifies or simplifies it, loads or overloads it with meaning; or else rebuts, overturns, destroys, and denies it, but thereby assumes it and has invisibly used it. Opposites are born from opposites.

Everything changes but the avant-garde

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.

Verbeelding is een uitstekend vertrekpunt voor verandering.

Pour moi comme pour plusieurs de mes condisciples, la relation du maître et du disciple était chose morte ; ne serait-ce que parce que nous avions d'autres idées que nos maîtres, qui n'avaient que leurs conceptions scientifiques d'avant-guerre ; nous étions sûrs de notre supériorité sur la génération précédente (ce qui vaut mieux que de gémir sur la décadence et de maudire son époque [...]).

Animation is everywhere - it is the omnipresent visual language of the 21st century.

Don't let self-imposed, unnecessary restrictions limit your thinking. Whenever you encounter a problem, it is worth spending a minute (or more) asking the question: 'Am I imposing rules that I don't need to? Can I change or bend the rules to my advantage?

Because that's what fantasy is, isn't it?" he demanded. "Not just making things up, but taking ideas and giving them hands and feet and claws and teeth!

You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt.

A new thing is good, though it be a sore place.

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of 'play,' number one, was 'engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,' and number two was 'gambling.' And I realize I do both when I'm designing.

Without innovation, tradition has no future.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

An artist must either give up art or develop. There are, of course, two ways of giving up: stopping altogether or taking the familiar Hollywood course - making tricks out of what was once done for love.

We don't have time to catch up with the future that is here.

The first prerogative of any artist, in any medium, is to make a fool of himself.

Why was it that the young were always convinced they had invented sex?

Mankind has never invented a weapon that they did not use sooner or later.