Mar 24, 2005 | Richard Bird | 14 Comments
Great Quotations
Great Quotations (About Design). Everybody has one, at least… one. Today, I see three on sticky notes to my Cinema display. All relate to design in some way. What’s your favorite quotation about design? Post it here as a comment with a reference to its origin and it will be added for all to see.
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Jeroen Mulder | Mar 25, 2005
“Forcing yourself to design is like exercising: the more you do, the stronger you become.”
Michael Cina (WWFT - www.weworkforthem.com)
I’ve always liked the quote.
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| Mar 25, 2005
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.”
—Paul Rand
Trent | Mar 25, 2005
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
—Pablo Picasso
Raymond | Mar 25, 2005
My favorite design quote…
“No, Watson, this was not done by accident, but by design.” -Sherlock Holmes
Anonymous | Mar 27, 2005
“Design is the fusion of creativity and reality.” -Chris Griego
Colin | Mar 28, 2005
“Good designers make trouble.”
- Tibor Kalman
Drew | Mar 28, 2005
Men have become tools of their tools
-Henry David Thoreau
Computers are Useless. They can only give you answers
-Picasso
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.
-Max Frisch
Kasper | Mar 29, 2005
“Design is ugly”.
-Yours sincerely….
Jon Plummer | Mar 29, 2005
“Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just get to work.” - Chuck Close
Rida Al Barazi | Mar 30, 2005
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein
Anonymous | May 2, 2005
“Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.” -Sol Lewitt
lendahand | May 15, 2005
“Be true to your work, and your work will be true to you.”
Charles Pratt - founder, Pratt Institute
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Eugene | Mar 25, 2005
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.
— C.A.R. Hoare
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