Giorgio Armani Quotes

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

I like artists that tend to be more interested in reinventing themselves, in experimenting.

James Cameron has always been great about changing the rules.

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

One of the difficult things in a high-growth company is that, even with the best intentions, the company moves so fast, and growth happens so regularly. When you move at that rate, you have to be willing to change, and you have to be willing to take advice.

Always try to reinvent myself; never try to stay the same person, because that's how people figure you out.

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

When you think you're on top of your game, you've got to change it, and keep evolving and keep getting better.

Talking about Pep is hard, he is just a genius. He tries to change things when we need to and it works. He is something else.

As a filmmaker I have changed, yes. I seem to have crossed a line and that journey, trajectory change is more apparent. I'd say, what changed dramatically in me as a filmmaker is the fact that now, it is about why am I making the film, what is this supposed to mean to people. Earlier, it was more about entertaining or engaging them.

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

I would like to continue being radical. As you get older, some of the world catches up and it's passed you. In the '60s you were on the crest of a wave because you were part of the wave. I don't want be a stick in the mud and do the same thing as I did last year, I want to do something different and see what happens.

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm at the top of the mountain and I cannot do more, I would be finished. So that's why I always feel the earth quake beneath my feet. I always feel myself on the fire. Because I think this is something that gives you the right adrenaline to work and go forward in your professional life. I have reinvented myself, believe me, many times in my life!

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.