44. Inspiring quotes
I've started to collect quotes that inspire me or ones that I find meaningful or can relate to. This particular quote-entry is a short compilation of quotes from various people (mostly designers) which I can relate to design.
- "We've seen 25 years of style running away with itself. It's not supposed to replace content; it's supposed to reflect it." - Peter Saville (Graphic designer)
- "We reap as we sow" - Jonathan Barnbrook (Graphic designer)
- "Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease." - Jonathan Barnbrook (Graphic designer)
- "Postmodernism celebrates evanescent flows, a state of no boundaries, the transgressive." - John Zerzan (Adbusters)
- "The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer" - Aaron Betsky (Architect)
- "What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure" - Aaron Betsky (Architect)
- "The sense lies far in the background" - Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher)
- "No formulas on elements" - Fluor (Graphic design)
- "Ugly = beautiful." - David Foldvari (Illustrator)
- "We believe in the abstraction of functionality and the functionality of abstraction." - Experimental Jetset (Graphic design)
- "Graphic design - a smiling cat with a tie" - Francois Chalet
- "Coexistance of the bright and dark sides" - Ippei Gyoubu (Illustrator)
- "There are no accidents" - Jeff Kleinsmith (Graphic designer)
- "Form follows function follows the heart" - Lateral Net Ltd (Advertising)
- "Silence is communication." - Zen Buddist statement
- "Treat nature in terms of the cylinder and the sphere and the cone." - Paul Cezanne (Artist)
- "He who rejects change is the architect of decay." - Harold Wilson (British Prime Minister 1964-70)
- "The quality of talent lies in its limitation, not its possibilities" - Max Kisman (Graphic designer)
- "The only principle that does not inhibit progress is anything goes" - Paul Feyerabend (Philospoher of science)
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