Quote

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.

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
Differences
Somebody
Spectacular
Stand
Hot
Money
Thinks
Without
Dog
Sometimes
Build
Much
Ordinary
Thinking
Difference

More quotes by Paula Scher

Image
As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.
Paula Scher
Image
Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.
Paula Scher
Image
New Zealand looks like the future to me
Paula Scher
Image
We don't do everything the same way we always did it. We just don't.
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
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.
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
I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
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
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.
Paula Scher
Image
Great design is serious, not solemn
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 get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.
Paula Scher
Image
Words have meaning, type has spirit.
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
Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.
Paula Scher
Image
Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
Paula Scher
Image
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.
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
If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.
Paula Scher