Ezra Pound Quotes

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

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.

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

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.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.