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

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

topic: Death, Art, Simple, Inspirational Graphic Design, Good Design

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

- Paul Rand

topic: Art, Simple, Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Inspiring Design

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

- David Hockney

topic: Art, Moving, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

- Freeman Thomas

topic: Honesty, Design, Intuition, Trust Your Intuition, Good Design

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

- Bruno Munari

topic: Design, Designer, Aesthetic, Inspirational Graphic Design, Graphic Design

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

- George Santayana

topic: Design, Individuality, Hobbies, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

topic: Inspiring, Perspective, People, Better Jobs, Best Design

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

- Milton Glaser

topic: Mean, Design, Masters, Inspiring Design, Design And Art

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Witty, Creativity, Science, Creative People, Funny Sarcastic

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

- Salvador Dali

topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

- Nolan Bushnell

topic: Motivational, Death, Inspiration, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Artist, Design, Synthesis, Graphic Design, Design And Art

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

- Stefan Sagmeister

topic: Art, Design, Pieces, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Design is where science and art break even.

- Robin Mathews

topic: Art, Design, Break, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Design

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

- James Whistler

topic: Tattoo, Art, Garden, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist

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

- Leo Burnett

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

topic: Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking, Creative People, Innovation Inspiration

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

topic: Inspiring, Success, Writing, Software Design, Inspirational Design

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

- Thomas Merton

topic: Art, Self Discovery, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists

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

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Business, Memorable, Veneer, Inspiring Business

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

- Hans Hofmann

source: 1967 Search for the Real.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Mean, Software Design, Life And Living

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

- Jeffrey Veen

topic: Ideas, Design, Normalcy, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

- Ben Shneiderman

topic: Technology, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, Thousand, Interfaces, Inspirational Design

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

topic: Philosophy, Design, Crafts, Software Design, Inspirational Design

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

- Robert L. Peters

topic: Design, Shapes, Culture, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

topic: Creativity, People, Creative, Unique Experiences, Creative People

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

- Massimo Vignelli

topic: Fashion, Fighting, Doctors, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Design

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

- Red Adair

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

- Pierre Bonnard

topic: Death, Color, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fake People, Software Design, Inspirational Design

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

- Jon Franklin

source: Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet

topic: Inspiring, Simplicity, Design, Inspirational Design, Design And Art

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

- Henrik Fisker

topic: Art, Design, Inspirational Design, Best Design, Design And Art

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

- Massimo Vignelli

topic: Art, Design, Utilitarian, Art Design

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.

- Tim Gunn

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

topic: Art, School, Self Confidence, Art Design

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

- Bran Ferren

source: "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.

topic: Art, Engineering, Design, Art Design

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

- Mike Mills

topic: Art Design

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

- Jeff Smith

topic: Art, College, Design, Art Design

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

- Malcolm Mclaren

topic: Art, Communication, Technology, Art Design, Financial Markets

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

- Malcolm Mclaren

source: "Searching for a way to break the rules" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

topic: Fashion, Art, Design, Art Design