Sambariprasad

Quotes on Art

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

—Giorgio de Chirico

“Art is creativity, creativity is passion, passion is love.”

—Andrew Brynjulson

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

—Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

—Kasimir Malevich

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

—Michelangelo

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

—Marc Chagall

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

—Eckhart Tolle

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

—Andrew Wyeth

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

—William Dobell

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

—Henry Moore

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

—John Ruskin

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.

—Picasso

An artist is not paid for his labour but for his vision.

 —James MacNeill Whistler

Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.

—Winston Churchill

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

—Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

—Picasso
 

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

—Henry Ward Beecher

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

—Winston Churchill

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

—Picasso

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

—Robert Henri

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

—John Donne.

”An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict. As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

—Bridget Riley

Even at best talent remains a constant, and those who rely upon that gift alone, without developing further, peak quickly and soon fade to obscurity.

—David Bayles and Ted Orland.

The seed of your next art work lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections (or mistakes, if you’re feeling particularly depressed about them today) are your guides - valuable, reliable, objective, non-judgemental guides - to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.

—David Bayles and Ted Orland.

Quotes on Architecture

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

—John Ruskin

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is frozen music.

—Goethe

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

—Vitruvius Pollio

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul

—Ernest Dimnet
 

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

—Le Corbusier

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

—Frank Gehry

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

—Philip Johnson

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

—Dan Rice

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

—Spiro Kostof

An architect is the drawer of dreams

—Grace McGarvie

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

—Michael Graves

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

—Malcolm Miller

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

—Maya Lin

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Quotes on Design

I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is Accessibility. This is all design.

—Mark Boulton

Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public.

— Valerie Pettis

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

— Steve Jobs

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

— Charles Eames
   

A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time; the initial feel of the book fades away as the mind becomes engrossed in the words.

— Mandy Brown
   

Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

— Orson Welles

Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this.”

— David Craib
   

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

—Brian Reed
   

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

— Joe Sparano
   

The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.

— Marty Neumeier
   

Design is where science and art break even.

— Robin Mathew

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

— Bruno Munari

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.

— Frank Chimero

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

— Eliel Saarinen

Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.

— Juan-Carlos Fernàndez
   

Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy.

— Leisa Reichelt
   

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

— Jeff Smith
   

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking.

— Chris Pullman

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. 

—Joseph Chilton Pearce

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

—Ellen Lupton

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

— Nolan Bushnell

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

— Hans Hofmann

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

— Jon Franklin

Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them.

— Matt Beale

I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

— Carrie Phillips

Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all. Everyone makes design decisions all the time without realizing it—like Moliere’s M. Jourdain who discovered he had been speaking prose all his life—and good design is simply the result of making these decisions consciously, at the right stage, and in consultation with others as the need arises.

— Douglas Martin

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

— Victor Papanek

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

— Paul Rand

Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

— Erik Adigard

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

— Robert L. Peters
   

It’s art if can’t be explained.
It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation.
It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.

— Wouter Stokkel

A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

— Leo Frankowski

A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.

— Brenda Laurel

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry

To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it’s just planning.

— Ayse Birsel

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

— Adrian Forty

The designer is a visually literate person, just as an editor is expected by training and inclination to be versed in language and literature, but to call the former an artist by occupation is as absurd as to refer to the latter as a poet.

— Douglas Martin

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

— Milton Glaser

If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

— John Maeda

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

— Clement Mok

Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible.

— John D. Berry

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.

— Scott Adams
 

There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.

— Milton Glaser

Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity.

— Jenaiha Woods

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

— Jan Tschichold

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

— Paola Antonelli

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

— Massimo Vignelli

Great design is all about details. With innovative material selection, sensible construction techniques and modern aesthetics one can craft a unique design language that sets a new standard.

— Roi James

Visual organization is the deliberate prioritization of meaning within a visual design. It’s the process of applying the principles behind perception - how we make sense of what we see - to illuminate relationships between content and actions.

— Luke Wroblewski

The original idea makes design distinctive, function makes it work and quality adds value.

— Serge Zuev

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

— John Maeda

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

— Steve Jobs

 

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.

— Jim Jarmusch

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

—Thomas Edison

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.