Paula Scher Quotes
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It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.
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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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It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.
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Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going…
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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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I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.
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Beige is the color of indecision.
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Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
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The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
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Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?
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All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.
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What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have…
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Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be…
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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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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…
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Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
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Words have meaning, type has spirit.
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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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