“ Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
- 181
“ A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism? ”
- Stephen Bayley- Copy
- 399
“ Good designers relentlessly generate lots of ideas and open-mindedly consider alternative solutions. At no time are good designers frightened to entertain a crazy, competing, or uncomfortable idea. ”
- Karl Ulrich- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There were a lot of people that contributed to my success as a person as well as a player. Without those people, I wouldn't be sitting in the position that I'm sitting in today. I think that it's extremely important for people to realize all of the things that other people do for them. ”
- Alonzo Mourning- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The designer… has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists… the designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense. ”
- David Kelley- Copy
- 2.7K
“ By the time I was a student in high school… I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. ”
- John Nash- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50. ”
- Ad Reinhardt- Copy
- 3.9K
“ To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ”
- Robert Schumann- Copy
- 3K
“ Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
- 735
“ The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. ”
- David Hockney- Copy
- 898
“ Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ”
- William Burroughs- Copy
- 409
“ Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. ”
- Georges Rouault- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting. ”
- Paul Rand- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. ”
- Coco Chanel- Copy
- 448
“ The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
- 429
“ The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset. ”
- Primo Angeli- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I wear carefully faded designer jeans and I once met Marlon Brando and I even bought a drink for the Aga Khan but he would not shake my hand. ”
- Jon English- Copy
- 2.6K
“ It's like having a designer dress compared with one from Woolworth's. Which one is more impressive when you go to the debutante ball? ”
- Bill Evans- Copy
- 814
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