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I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Designer
Painter
Different
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You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.
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New Zealand looks like the future to me
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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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You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.
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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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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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Beige is the color of indecision.
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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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Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
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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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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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I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.
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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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Planning involves considering how other people may use something.
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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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The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
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I never thought I'd be able to design all the things I've been able to design. I thought that I'd be far more limited to a specific kind of work, and I've been able to establish an incredibly broad practice in all different ways, and it's because the expectations have gotten elevated.
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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.
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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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