Alexander Pope Quotes

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.

Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don't need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new.

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

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

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

I am comfortable combining the old and the new.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

If you start shaping everything you do trying to be in step with whatever is going on in the world, you're often out of step by the time people hear it. It's a bit like fashion.

By the time you do what somebody else is doing, everybody has moved on to something else.

I don't go looking for new fads.

There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily, but things change - nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you're always going to be legendary.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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

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.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

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.

People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.