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

Paula Scher

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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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Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.
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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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Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.
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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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Planning involves considering how other people may use something.
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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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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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Design really can be anything.
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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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New Zealand looks like the future to me
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Great design is serious, not solemn
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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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We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.
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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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The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
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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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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.
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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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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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