Howard Draft quotes

“We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.”
-- Howard Draft

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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.

“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”

“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press

“I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.”

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.”

“Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.”

“Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.4, Transaction Publishers

“Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.”

“To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.”

“Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs.”