Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth throug…

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Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's always …

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Every lie creates a parallel world.. a world in which it is true

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I enjoy the optimism of design, even though we can see it as doomed. But I'm telling most people that I'm not writing about design any more this year…

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When you tell filthy jokes as if they were all really serious, and happening all in the life of one family, it becomes a farcical situation. Imagine …

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Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as they exist, whic…

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Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy bec…

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If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce off ea…

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If you look at the steps being taken towards Scottish independence, they're being dealt with politically in very dull and boring ways. So if you just…

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