Artist Quotes by Paula Scher

8 Artist quotes by Paula Scher

Paula Scher’s perspective on the artist’s role lands in eight compact, visual statements that read like a design brief, each emphasizing bold typography and layout.

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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…

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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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It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in…

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Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

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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…

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

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When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

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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…

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I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

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Words have meaning, type has spirit.

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Beige is the color of indecision.

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To me what really matters is that it shouldn't matter to you what day of the week it is.

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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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Planning involves considering how other people may use something.

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I'm most proud of the fact that I get to keep growing.

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