Quotes About Art

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

To touch somebody's heart with design.

The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.

Design has to work. Art does not.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Design does not really interest me

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

Everything starts with design.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.