| "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, 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 |
| "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 |
| "Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humours." George Santayana |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." Salvador Dali |
| "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo |
| "Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others." Albert Camus |
| "In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?" Igor Stravinsky |
| "Colour does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it." Pierre Bonnard |
| "The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation." Auguste Rodin |
| "If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature." Bruce Barton |
| "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." Bruce Feirstein |
| "People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." Saint Augustine |
| "Creative without strategy is called 'art'. Creative with strategy is called 'advertising'." Jef I. Richards |
| "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." Leo Tolstoy |
| "The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it." Michael Behe |
| "Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities." Robert H. Schuller |
| "Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition." Freeman Thomas |
| "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 recognise it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes." David Herbert Lawrence |
| "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher |
| "Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world." George Santayana |
| "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." George Bernard Shaw |
| "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 |
| "Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling." Madeleine L'Engle |
| "Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation." Max Ernst |
| "I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind." Emily Bronte |
