Alice Dellal Quotes

The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.