Rei Kawakubo Quotes

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

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.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we're excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Talent works, genius creates.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

When starting a project, your influences are the things around you. It doesn't mean you have to sound like it or look like it or anything. It's just something new, and your curiosity becomes enthralled by it.