Quotes on Design And Art

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.

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

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

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

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

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.