Jane Gardam Quotes

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

There is always a time to move on.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

We can't be beholden to the past.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.

Forget the past.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

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.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.

You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.

You have to decide when it is time to move on.

Forget the things that are behind. Forget the unhappy past. Forget the stories of the old feuds, the old triumphs, the old humiliations.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.