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The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

Paula Scher

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Head
Done
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Heart
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My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.
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We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.
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I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.
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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
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Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.
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You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.
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It could be that going to work is better than being home. But you should never think of days as the weekend. It should all be the same, it should all be stuff you want to do. And when it isn't then you have to change it, and you have to think about how you change it.
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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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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.
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I think Apple is a wonderful example of spectacular marketing and I love having my iPod. There are the naysayers who say that nyah, nyah, it breaks and I think well, I don't like what Microsoft made...
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If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.
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Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.
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Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.
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I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.
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Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.
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All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.
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Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
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As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.
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