"Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated." Paul Rand |
"Creativity is to think more efficiently." Pierre Reverdy |
"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order." Theodor Adorno |
"Another word for creativity is courage." George Prince |
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud |
"Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom." Paula Rego |
"Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination." Carol Lloyd |
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." Walt Disney |
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." Jack London |
"You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are." Anna Quindlen |
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." Edgar Degas |
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." George E. Allen |
"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." Eliel Saarinen |
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability." Zig Ziglar |
"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail." Edwin H. Land |
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." Mary Lou Cook |
"She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it." Mary S. Almanac |
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." Baltasar Gracian |
"Goals are dreams with deadlines." Diana Scharf Hunt |
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression." Isaac Bashevis Singer |
"When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls." Ted Grant |
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." George Smith Patton |
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." Jamie Paolinetti |
"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master." Milton Glaser |
"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus." David Hockney |
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution." Ivan Chermayeff |
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." Leonardo da Vinci |
"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute." Gil Stern |
"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity." Bo Bennett |
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