While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
Interpretation
Artists have the freedom to engage with others, whereas designers have a responsibility to consider their impact on people.
This quote highlights the distinction between artists and designers in terms of their roles related to society. While artists may choose how they relate to their audience or community, designers are inherently required to be considerate and responsible in their work, as their creations directly affect the lives of others and the environment they function within.
In practice
During a lecture on design ethics, this quote can be referenced to emphasize the accountability designers have in their work.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. Theyβre able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.
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