Ferran Adria Quotes

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

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.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

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

In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.