Mick Ebeling quotes

“I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.”
-- Mick Ebeling

#Art Quotes #Design Quotes #World Quotes

“This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?”
-- Mick Ebeling

#Want Quotes #Needs Quotes #Done Quotes

“The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.”
-- Mick Ebeling

Source : "How a 3-D printed arm gave hope to boy maimed in bomb blast" by Mick Ebeling, www.cnn.com. March 19, 2014.

#Believe Quotes #Reality Quotes #Giving Quotes

“We've created a device that has absolutely no limitations. There's no insurance company that can say 'no.' There's no hospital that can say 'no.' Anybody who's paralyzed now has access to draw or communicate using only their eyes.”
-- Mick Ebeling

#Eye Quotes #Technology Quotes #Insurance Companies Quotes

“That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe.”
-- Mick Ebeling

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Years Quotes

“The best way to motivate me is to tell me no,”
-- Mick Ebeling

#Way Quotes

“I actually feel most at home when I find people who make me feel really dumb, who are brilliant at their particular things. And then I gather these people, put them in a room and watch incredible things come out of it,”
-- Mick Ebeling

#Home Quotes #People Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.”
-- Mick Ebeling

#Stupid Quotes #People Quotes #Surround Yourself Quotes

“Jump and the net will appear.”
-- Mick Ebeling

Source : Mick Ebeling (2017). “Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”

“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.”

“The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.”

“The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.”

“The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…”

“If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.”

Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”