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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
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Washington
District of Columbia
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You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.
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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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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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The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
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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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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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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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Design really can be anything.
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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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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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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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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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The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.
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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 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.
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If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.
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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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New Zealand looks like the future to me
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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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