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Quotes About Art

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'
~ Rumi
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.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Unknown
Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.
~ George Rickey
Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.
~ John French Sloan
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.
~ Hedi Slimane
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.
~ Walter J. Phillips
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
~ Jeff Smith
Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.
~ Kenyon Cox
I like to do designs on the side of my face, or cut out foil stickers from the crafts store and put them on my forehead.
~ Khloe Kardashian
Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.
~ Unknown
I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.
~ Liam Gillick
Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.
~ Diane Wilson
I always wanted to design for films.
~ Ken Adam
I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.
~ Susan Orlean
I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.
~ Maya Lin
Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy.
~ Ryan North
All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel
~ Simon de Pury
The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.
~ Unknown
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
~ Stephen Sondheim
I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
~ Steven Amsterdam
When typography is on point, words become images.
~ Shawn Lukas
My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan