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"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."
Isaac Bashevis Singer Design quotes
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"When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls."
Ted Grant Design quotes
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
George Smith Patton Design quotes
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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
Jamie Paolinetti Design quotes
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"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."
Milton Glaser Design quotes
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"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
David Hockney Design quotes
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"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Design quotes
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"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."
Ivan Chermayeff Design quotes
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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 Design quotes
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"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute."
Gil Stern Design quotes
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"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."
Bo Bennett Design quotes
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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep"
Scott Adams Design quotes
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"The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions."
Diane Ackerman Design quotes
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"Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures."
Jeffery Veen Design quotes
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"Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy."
Erik Adigard Design quotes
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams Design quotes
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"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
Charles Eames Design quotes
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau Design quotes
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"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler Design quotes
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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
D. H. Lawrence Design quotes
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"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
Miguel de Cervantes Design quotes
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"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Paul Gauguin Design quotes
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art."
Susan Sontag Design quotes
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"I didn't get into design to be an artist. To me, an artist creates things to evoke emotion. Being a designer goes a step further than that, not only trying to evoke emotion but trying to make a reaction. It is very objective-driven, and that's what makes it interesting."
Mike Davidson Design quotes
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"Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good."
Clement Mok Design quotes
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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 Design quotes
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humours."
George Santayana Design quotes
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"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."
Charles Eames Design quotes
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"Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood."
Ivan Chermayeff Design quotes
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"It is every artist's fantasy to run things. I know personally, I'd be happiest as dictator of a small island. The problem is that romantic artists are usually too disorganized to run their own lives, let alone societies. And most societies are too sensible to let them try it."
Brad Holland Design quotes
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