Rei Kawakubo Quotes

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Change brings opportunity.

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

You cannot have growth without change.

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

I love to watch times change!

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.