Bill Viola Quotes

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

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

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

Either people cling to the past and refuse to advance their ways, or they're always looking to future and not appreciating what's in front of them right now.

I'm in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

Italy will start the future. Because in the last 20, 20 years, Italy discussed only about the past. "Oh, the past is wonderful in Italy." Look, look Palazzo Vecchio. The most beautiful place in the world, in my opinion, I think this is incredible place. But the past is not sufficient. Is not enough. We need the future. Because we are Italians. And Italy is not only a museum.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms.