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Quotes About Creativity

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.
~ Marty Neumeier
Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
~ Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys
To touch somebody's heart with design.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.
~ Erik Spiekermann
I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.
~ Norman Foster
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
~ Ettore Sottsass
Design has to work. Art does not.
~ Donald Judd
The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.
~ Kenya Hara
Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
~ Frederic Goudy
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
~ Chip Kidd
I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
~ Ralph Lauren
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
~ Herbert Simon
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
~ Emil Ruder
It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.
~ Jonathan Ive
Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.
~ Paula Scher
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
~ Neil Gaiman
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
~ Vera Wang
We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.
~ Jonathan Ive
Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
~ John Maeda
Think more design less
~ Ellen Lupton
You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.
~ William McDonough
Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
~ William McDonough