| "We adore chaos because we love to produce order." M. C. Escher |
| "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." Henry David Thoreau |
| "Ah good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness." Pablo Picasso |
| "Contentment: The smother of invention." Ethel Mumford |
| "Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten." Gucci family slogan |
| "Art is the lie that reveals the truth." Pablo Picasso |
| "It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning." Salvador Dali |
| "No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist." Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." John Lennon |
| "When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme." Jiminy Cricket |
| "Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition." Jani Allan |
| "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." Vincent van Gogh |
| "Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity." Plato |
| "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." Howard Aiken |
| "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." Salvador Dali |
| "A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?" Ferdinand Alexander Porsche |
| "It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable colour to every object; beware of this stumbling block." Paul Gauguin |
| "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain |
| "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams |
| "Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent." William Bernbach, quoted in Bill Bernbach said, 1989. |
| "Like so many other digital designers born in the 70's, 8-bit computers got me into design. I wasn't a natural designer but I've always been very much into drawing. I used to play video games too. Eventually I started drawing on the computer. 16 colours on a 300x200 screen gives you an eye for detail (and teaches you how to use a grid very effectively). Many of the most beautifully detailed 8-bit games are Japanese and Japanese design in general is a big turn on. They really understand colour." Joe de Lange, Redshift Creative Director |
| "When you try to formalize or socialize creative activity, the only sure result is commercial constipation . . . . The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups." Charles Browder, former BBDO president, 1957. |
| "If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!" William Bernbach |
| "Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold." James Randolph Adams, quoted in The International Dictionary of Thoughts, 1969. |
| "Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination." Robert Fulghum |
