Jose Andres Puerta Quotes

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

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

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

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

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

If you understand this refrain, you're gonna' understand everything I want to say to you today. It has four parts: Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it ., Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past ., Ours is less and less a free society.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

I think we speak to a certain mindset, and it's about, you know, inspiring people who are progressive thinkers who want to see change.

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

Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea that the past is irrelevant to tomorrow - and tomorrow is all that matters. But the past is part of who we are.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?