10th International Design Indaba quotes of the day

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"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
Giorgio Armani

"The recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When people feel they had to express themselves for originality for its own sake, that tends not to be creativity. Only when you get into the problem and the problem becomes clear, can creativity take over."
Charles Eames

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

"Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination."
Imannuel Kant

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
William Plomer

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