Paula Scher Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• 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.

  Paula Scher

  Years, Design, Draws

• I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

  Paula Scher

  Impact, Design, Posters

• 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

  Gambling, Play, Two

• It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

  Paula Scher

  Mistake, Technology, Order

• The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

  Paula Scher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Jobs

• 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

  Heart, Design, Needs

• 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 to express anything to anybody else.

  Paula Scher

  Design, Understanding, Culture

• The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

  Paula Scher

  Goal, Expectations, Design

• 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 "norm"that I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.

  Paula Scher

  Design, Want, Nervous

  Source: es.scribd.com

• 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 to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

  Paula Scher

  Times Have Changed, Design, Looks

• Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

  Paula Scher

  Expectations, Design, Use

• 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.

  Paula Scher

  People, Design, Different

  Source: es.scribd.com

• 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

  Practice, Expectations, Design

• Design really can be anything.

  Paula Scher

  Design

  Source: es.scribd.com

• Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

  Paula Scher

  Art, Design, Planning

  Source: es.scribd.com

• Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

  Paula Scher

  Art, Thinking, Differences

  Source: es.scribd.com

• I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make.

  Paula Scher

  Jobs, Hate, Nice

  Interview with Ryan and Tina Essmaker, thegreatdiscontent.com. November 19, 2013.

• 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.

  Paula Scher

  Dog, Art, Design

  Source: es.scribd.com

• Great design is serious, not solemn

  Paula Scher

  Design, Serious, Great Design

• Design always has a purpose.

  Paula Scher

  Design, Purpose

  Source: es.scribd.com

• Design exists to serve some purpose.

  Paula Scher

  Design, Purpose

  Source: es.scribd.com

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

  Paula Scher

  Design, Different, Planning

  Source: es.scribd.com

• I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

  Paula Scher

  Art, Moving, Thinking

  Source: es.scribd.com

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