Seymour Chwast quotes
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“If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything.”
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“If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.”
-- Seymour ChwastSource : Seymour Chwast (1985). “The left-handed designer”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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“I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.”
-- Seymour ChwastSource : Seymour Chwast (1985). “The left-handed designer”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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“If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.”
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“I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.”
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“If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.”
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“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”
Source : "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Auguste Rodin, p. 61-63, 1905.
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“God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.”
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“Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.”
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“Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.”
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