Sister Parish Quotes

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

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

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

I take references from the past and flip them.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

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

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

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.

If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

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

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

If you understand this refrain, you're gonna' understand everything I want to say to you today. It has four parts: Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it ., Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past ., Ours is less and less a free society.

I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern... and maybe that's what I am.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

Everything we've ever done has been for artistry's sake, and for the greater good and paying homage to those who came before us and paving the way for those who come after us.

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

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.