Design Quotes - Page 12

• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

  1982 A Severed Wasp.

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

  Joan Miro

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fire

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• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

  Paul Rand

  Jobs, Ideas, Interesting

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• To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Drawing

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• Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Imagination, Possibility

  Robert H. Schuller (1986). “Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking”, Jove

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• Design cannot rescue failed content.

  Edward Tufte

  Rescue

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• Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Creativity

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• Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Success, Business, Starting Up

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• There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

  Sohrab Vossoughi

  Simplicity, Humanity, Principles

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• The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Drawing, Hands

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• If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

  John Maeda

  Passion, Creativity, Successful

  Twitter post from Nov 9, 2014

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• Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

  Stanley Morison

  Moving, Successful, Novelty

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• Design is an unknown.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Death

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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• The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Fashion, Fighting, Doctors

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• Simple design, intense content.

  Edward Tufte

  Simple, Consciousness, Intense

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• Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

  Stephen Bayley

  Rich, Process, Condemnation

  Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon

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• Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

  Kenzo Tange

  Long, Arbitrary, Lasts

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• Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.

  Albert Hadley

  Real, Together, World

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• Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Attitude, Thinking, Color

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• People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

  Paola Antonelli

  Badass, Attitude, Technology

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• If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.

  Donald A. Norman

  Thinking, Boxes, Interruptions

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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