Design Quotes
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"The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
Leo Burnett"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."
Lewis Carroll"Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity."
Jenaiha Woods"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
Henry David Thoreau"Variety is not the spice of life; it is the very stuff of it."
Christopher Burney, Solitary Confinement, 1952."Water which is too pure has no fish."
Ts'ai Ken T'an"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Paul Gauguin"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent van Gogh"An image . . . is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
Daniel Boorstin, quoted in Randall Rothenberg, Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story, 1994."Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."
Leonardo da Vinci"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."
Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."
John Constable (1776 - 1837)"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
Dr Edwin Land"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), Impressions and Comments (1914).