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Quotes About Creativity

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer.
~ Unknown
I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black
~ Patrick Kelly
It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
~ Groucho Marx
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
~ Louis Sullivan
I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.
~ Alexander Wang
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.
~ Maxim Gorky
The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
~ Charles James
The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.
~ Jonathan Ive
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
~ Niklaus Wirth
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
~ Ellen Lupton
In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.
~ Tommy Hilfiger
Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
~ Octavio Paz
If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.
~ Alexander Wang
Once you have the statement, it will design itself.
~ Bob Gill
We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.
~ Unknown
I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.
~ ASAP Rocky
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
~ Truman Capote
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
~ Brad Pitt
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
~ Harold E. Varmus
When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.
~ Unknown
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.
~ Unknown
The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.
~ Erich Gamma
I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.
~ Michael Schwab
People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.
~ Vincent Connare