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.
• The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
• 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.
• 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…
• The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.
• I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.
• Beige is the color of indecision.
• Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
• The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
• Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?
• All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.
• 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…
• 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…
• If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.
• 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…
• Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
• Words have meaning, type has spirit.
• 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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