Lester Beall quotes

“The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.”
-- Lester Beall

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“A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous.  Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality.”
-- Lester Beall

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“The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.”
-- Lester Beall

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“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”
-- Lester Beall

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“3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).”
-- Lester Beall

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“A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous. Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality.”
-- Lester Beall

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“Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.”
-- Lester Beall

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“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”

“Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.”

Source : "Adam Baldwin Talks THE LAST SHIP, Auditioning for Michael Bay, Striking Up a Friendship with Eric Dane, Looking Back on FIREFLY and THE INSIDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 06, 2014.

“Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?”

“It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.”

“Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...”

“Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.”

“I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.”

“Political development should start at the grassroots.”

“The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.”