Kurt Schwitters Quotes

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

Fresh or changing conditions ferment fresh forms.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

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.

In the entertainment industry, there remains one constant: change.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

I've always been obsessed with the art of transformation.

I'm ever-changing and always evolving, always trying new things.

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

Because you think an explosion has taken place and you're looking at the shards and you say, 'Well, can we put this back together?' And by God, maybe you can put it back together. And maybe it won't be the same, but maybe it will be different, and maybe it can even be better in a different way.

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

I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one.

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

Behold, I make all things new.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

We have to change.

In order for the Bureau to change we have to open ourselves to suggestions

A playwright can drop a little acid in the water and it washes away a lot of rust.

The dogmas of the quite past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.