Alfred Jarry Quotes

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

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

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

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

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

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.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

What is the argument on the other side? Only this, that no case has been found in which it has been done before. That argument does not appeal to me in the least. If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on; and that will be bad for both.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.

The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with gender roles, then I think it will change. But if that's not of interest to a dance-maker, if their interest is to sort of preserve the way things have been done for the past 200 years, then nothing is going to change.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

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