22 Quotes by Paula Scher

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

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

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

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.

Words have meaning, type has spirit.

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

Great design is serious, not solemn.

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.

Beige is the color of indecision.