Quotes About Repurposing

America's genius has always been to take something old, familiar and wrinkled and repackage it as new, exciting and smooth.

Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

The street finds its own uses for things.

When you just copy and paste, you miss that. You just repurpose the last layer instead of understanding all the layers underneath.

I have become quite good at repurposing and reusing much of what comes into the house. The goal is to generate as little waste as possible.

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus

It was a time of repurposing. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without," was the motto of the time.

A merda de um cara é o adubo de outro.

Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.

It went to show that no one knew, when they abandoned a thing, what misuses it would be put to later by others.

There was some kind of special power involved in repurposing language, redistributing the voices, changing the principle of patterning, faint sparks of alternative meaning in the shadow of the original sense, the narrative.

exaptation. An organism develops a trait optimized for a specific use, but then the trait gets hijacked for a completely different function.

Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by dissecting and repurposing public speech, prying its falsehoods from its half-truths. It is fighting for its right to critique our would-be democracy.

Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.

He had come from a country where mathematics and mechanics were natural traits. Cars were never destroyed. Parts of them were carried across a village and readapted into a sewing machine or water pump. The backseat of a Ford was reupholstered and became a sofa. Most people in his village were more likely to carry a spanner or screwdriver than a pencil. A car's irrelevant parts thus entered a grandfather clock or irrigation pulley or the spinning mechanism of an office chair.

My most treasured clothing item is first suit that I made - acid green. It was disgusting, but I love it. It's been mended a million times, but I still wear it.

We want what you no longer want.

My dad used to give me old electrical equipment that didn't work anymore, and I'd put things together. I think that's why I like to mix things that don't belong.

use an item for its intended purpose. For example, do not just use a tablecloth for a table, make it a slip cover for your ottoman. It can save you lots of money and time when you purchase

It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art.

instead of tearing down the building, solidly made with a four-acre footprint, it was turned into a center for the arts—gallery upon gallery, with coffee shops and restaurants. Here and there iron clumps of machinery have been left on pedestals, looking like vorticist sculptures.