Quotes About Creativity

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

When in doubt, use Caslon.

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.