| "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (via Quoteland.com)" Douglas Adams |
| "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. (via Brainy Quote)" William James |
| "Having an idea in the first place is just the start; bringing that idea to life in a way that inspires others to help it grow can mean the difference between an abandoned sketch on a notepad and a successful finished product in a customer's hands. (via Warc)" Lucy Blakemore |
| "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 |
