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Quotes About Creativity

Yes, design can make you happy.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.
~ Unknown
Every little job counts. Design counts.
~ Michael Bierut
Math is easy; design is hard.
~ Jeffrey Veen
The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.
~ Geoffrey Beene
Design is important because chaos is so hard.
~ Jules Feiffer
I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.
~ Johanna Drucker
You have to be interested in culture to design for it.
~ Unknown
Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.
~ Unknown
Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.
~ Arman
There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture - especially the innovation culture - of a company.
~ Unknown
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
~ Sister Parish
Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
~ Ralph Caplan
To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.
~ Unknown
Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.
~ Unknown
What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
~ Rian Hughes
It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.
~ Robert Greenberg
Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
~ Milton Glaser
Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.
~ Unknown
Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.
~ Tibor Kalman
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
~ Jonathan Ive
I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials
~ Paco Rabanne
No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
~ William Morris
The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.
~ Unknown