Quotes About Interpretation

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

No one ever answers my questions, but they always question my answers.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

Some things are meant to live and die with an artist

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

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

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

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.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

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.

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

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.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

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