William Eggleston Quotes

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

You can't stand still in one spot, no matter how good it is. You have to do something new, keep trying. That's everything.

It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

I think it's important to always offer something new.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's 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.

Progress does not occur without change.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I've done one movie, I've done that, move on.

Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

Progress requires change.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

Progress is the mother of problems.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

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

Change demands new learning.