Alber Elbaz Quotes

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

... imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

We will reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Comfort is the killer of creativity.

Past glories are poor feeding.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

Perfection is the often the enemy of greatness.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.