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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.

Paula Scher

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Every
Optimism
Capacity
Growth
Success

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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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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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Great design is serious, not solemn
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Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.
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I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's who I was.
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I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.
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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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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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Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.
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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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Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.
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My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because you become the firm that does that, or you become the person that does that. You really need to change the form to make the discovery.
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Planning involves considering how other people may use something.
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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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I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design normthat I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.
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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.
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Technology is something that grows and changes, and what I need to do is find out what it can do so it can do what I want it to do. And I want it to do whatever I want it to do really fast. And it's fantastic.
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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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