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.
We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.
I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
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