Quotes About Meaning

The good is not a category that interests me.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

The strongest logos tell simple stories.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

To touch somebody's heart with design.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

Design exists to serve some purpose.

I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why not have a class of third graders compete to design your logo?

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.