Art Design Quotes

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

Death, Art, Simple

"Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

Art, Simple, Design

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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

David Hockney

Art, Moving, Design

1988 In The Guardian, 26 Oct.

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Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Freeman Thomas

Honesty, Creative Collaboration, Tough Questions

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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Bruno Munari

Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

George Santayana

Design, Individuality, Hobbies

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A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Steve Jobs

Inspiring, People, Perspective

"Steve Jobs: The next insanely great thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Milton Glaser

Mean, Design, Masters

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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Witty, Clever, Creativity

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Nolan Bushnell

Motivational, Death, Inspiration

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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Artist, Design, Synthesis

R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.116, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Stefan Sagmeister

Art, Design, Pieces

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Design is where science and art break even.

Robin Mathews

Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

James Whistler

Tattoo, Art, Creativity

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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking

Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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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-Exupery

Inspiring, Success, Writing

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

Art, Fools Day, Finding Yourself

Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs

Inspiring, Business, Work

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

Inspirational, Business, Mean

1967 Search for the Real.

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Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

Jeffrey Veen

Ideas, Design, Normalcy

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A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Ben Shneiderman

Technology, Design, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Erik Adigard

Philosophy, Design, Crafts

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Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

Robert L. Peters

Inspiring, Art, Design

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When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Steve Jobs

Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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