Frank Miller Quotes

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

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 make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.

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

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

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.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say, "We've always done it that way," my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.