Raf Simons Quotes

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

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

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What part of your idea are you in love with? What would happen if you kissed it goodbye?

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

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

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

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

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

I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

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

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

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

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

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

Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way."

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.