Carine Roitfeld Quotes

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

I am so inspired by new media.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

Many people think that the print press is dying in America. Well I do not agree. And neither does my blacksmith.

… printed newspapers on actual paper may be a luxury item. It’s sort of like … people still have horses, but it’s not their primary way of commuting to the office.

I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.

Print is not dead.

I come from a traditional media generation, you know? I'm like the last generation of that. And so the whole world has changed, ultimately. Coming into social media, Twitter, Facebook - I mean, the first social media I ever had was Tumblr.

I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.