Rei Kawakubo Quotes

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

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

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

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

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

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

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

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

I am not afraid of new inventions.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time.

Something that has been important to me is never to repeat myself, never to go back.

I discovered when I was young that I was not like everyone else, and that was great, because it's the people who are different who bring about change and new things.

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.