Mary E. Pearson Quotes

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

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

I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.