Paul Valery Quotes

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

I would like to continue being radical. As you get older, some of the world catches up and it's passed you. In the '60s you were on the crest of a wave because you were part of the wave. I don't want be a stick in the mud and do the same thing as I did last year, I want to do something different and see what happens.

New arts destroy the old.

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about that - for me, creativity is an important part of our evolution. Art has probably done more good for the world than war. But they're equally powerful. They both create revolutions.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.