Quotes About Art

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

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.

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.

Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions.

I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

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.

Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

Design is everything.

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

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

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.