Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

What I have done here no one has done before.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.