Quote

Words have meaning, type has spirit.

Paula Scher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Type
Words
Spirit
Meaning

More quotes by Paula Scher

Image
All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.
Paula Scher
Image
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.
Paula Scher
Image
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.
Paula Scher
Image
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.
Paula Scher
Image
What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.
Paula Scher
Image
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
Image
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.
Paula Scher
Image
I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
Paula Scher
Image
The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
Paula Scher
Image
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.
Paula Scher
Image
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.
Paula Scher
Image
If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.
Paula Scher
Image
New Zealand looks like the future to me
Paula Scher
Image
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.
Paula Scher
Image
When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
Paula Scher
Image
Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.
Paula Scher
Image
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.
Paula Scher
Image
Planning involves considering how other people may use something.
Paula Scher
Image
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.
Paula Scher
Image
Great design is serious, not solemn
Paula Scher