“We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.” PeopleDifferentCreativeEnvironmentBe CreativeDifferent PeoplesOur Environment Author:Paula Scher
“Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it.” HumansMayCultureHuman BeingsCreativityAdvantageConstantGenuineRebellionDisadvantagesMistrust Author:Paula Scher
“Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.” LongCreativityLong TimeLong Time Ago Author:Paula Scher
“For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's some mistrust from somebody saying it couldn't be a certain way, and overthrowing that. But that can happen at any point in history, at any time you come along. It doesn't get better or worse because you're born in this era or that era - I think it's more individualistic. It comes from within, you know, it's an internal thing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayHappensCertainBornDrivenInventionArtisticErasGet BetterInternalsWithin YouMistrustIndividualistic Author:Paula Scher
“Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.” PeopleNeedsStuffEnvironmentThriveRitual Author:Paula Scher
“I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that you can try these things and that something will happen.” ThinkingTryingHappensCreativeAssumingNotionBe Creative Author:Paula Scher
“I find that I'm at my least creative point when I am doing something that I've done in repetition and I know all the rules - I never break the rules because I know them.” KnowsDoneBreakCreativeRepetition Author:Paula Scher
“What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.” DoneHateI HateReplacedEmbarrassingSomething Better Author:Paula Scher