Quotes on Novelty

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle." - Hannah Arendt

"The New is not a fashion, it is a value." - Roland Barthes

"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it." - Robert Bresson

"I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them." - Dick Clark

"We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." - T. S. Eliot

"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home." - Shelby Foote