“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!”
“Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true.”
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”