"Art is not life, nor a reproduction of life, but a representation carried out within the specific terms, conversions and limitations of the particular art used. Hence absolute truth, with reference to objective fact, is not to be found in the business. The most realistic art is considerablely removed from reality. Art does not give real things or imitations of real things. The thing that art gives is strained first through the artist's selections and judgments, and then through the specific techniques with he used to present them. If you are to enjoy an art, you must first accept its terms."    Thomas Hart Benton "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."    Albert Einstein "There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination."    Ralph Waldo Emerson "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."    George-Louis De Buffon "You can always spend a lot of money and drop a chandelier on people, but if you can break their hearts, then you've got something."    Ron Bohmer "Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."    Samuel Butler Consider the late great English painter, Francis Bacon. He once told an interviewer that each of his paintings would only start to come together when he got disgusted with how bad it was, which would cause him to start throwing paint at the thing in despair. "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow."    Charles Brower "Creativity often consists merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?"    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better."    John Updike "Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form."    Paul Rand "Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."    Leo Burnett "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."    Douglas Adams P.L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins books, put it best when she wrote, "You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for – if you are honest – you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity beings. It is all endless and all one." "The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows."    Milton Glaser " A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."     Louis Nizer "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."    Howard Aiken "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."    John F. Kennedy "Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."    The Dilbert Principle "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."    Albert Einstein Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.    Paul Rand "You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."    Yogi Berra "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."    Norman Douglas "The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything."    David Ogilvy, confessions of an advertising man "I am still learning."    Michelangelo "The designer does not, as a rule, begin with a preconceived idea. His idea is the result of subjective and objective thought, and the design a product of the idea. In order, therefore, to achieve an honest and effective solution he necessarily passes thought some sort of mental process ... Consciously or not, he analyzes, interprets, translates ... He improvises, invents new techniques and combinations. He coordinates and integrates his material so that he may restate his problem in terms of ideas, pictures, forms, and shapes. He unifies, simplifies, eliminates superfluities. He symbolizes ... abstract from his material by association and analogy. He intensifies and reinforces his symbol with appropriate accessories to achieve clarity and interest. He draws upon instinct and intuition. He considers the spectator, his feelings and predilections."    Paul Rand Our educational system doesn't have exclusive rights on the guilt and anxiety associated with learning. Learning inherently involves some trauma; it requires a certain amount of exertion and implies giving up one way of thinking for another.    Richard Saul Wurman The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.    Seymour Papert "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."    Albert Einstein "In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?"    Roy H. Williams "Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."    Oliver Wendell Holmes "We are more easily persuaded, in general, by the reason we ourselves discover than by those which are given by others."    Blaine Pascal "Experiences the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward."    Anonymous "Success is a journey, not a destination."    Ben Sweetland "No one has a contract with God to succeed."    Tony Mikes I will destroy my enemies by converting them to my friends.    Maimodes "It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."    Aesop "Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map."    Wayne Calloway "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn¹t thinking."    General George S. Patton "A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."    Henry Ford "It¹s a poor workman who blames his tools."    Unknown "Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."    Thomas J. Watson Jr. "Kites rise highest against the wind  not with it."    Sir Winston Churchill "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is doing something else."    Tom Peters If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?    Rumi Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk, This will teach you to keep your mouth shut.    Mark Twain Good ideas are a dime a dozen...it's execution that counts.    Anon Check out this book with quotes about design from designers: "Everything Reverberates: Thoughts on Design"   "If you have ideas and imagery, technique will follow."    Unknown Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her. Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her. After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him. Picasso replies: "$5,000."      The woman screamed, "but it took you only five minutes."      "No, madam, it took me all my life," replied Picasso.    Unknown Source for Story "One must seek solutions that are engaging and demanding visually."    Unknown "Creation implies self-creation; the making of an aesthetic object implies the generation of the artist."    Unknown "Harmony is the grandest artistic aim."    Unknown "Modern French painting is all right; it has produced many beautiful and interesting things, fully worthy of admiration, but it has also set up response habits among our artistic authorities which have worked against a free approach to other artistic forms. These habits, objectified in numerous critical and appreciative essays, have crystallized into standards which, while they may be effective momentarily for the French painting responsible for them, have little or no validity when applied to other kinds."    Thomas Hart Benton "Art gives voice to that which has not been spoken."    Unknown "The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."    Leo Burnett "An image ... is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."    Daniel Boorstin "There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. 'Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.'"    Albert Renger-Patzsch, "Joy before the Object" 1928 "A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique."    Primo Angeli "Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one."    Stella Adler "Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."    André Gide "I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."    Orson Welles "What garlic is to food, insanity is to art."    Unknown "Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together."    Vincent Van Gogh "There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."    Vincent Van Gogh "The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things — but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all."    John Cassavetes "Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions."    Anonymous "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life."    John Homer Miller "Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. "    Chief Seattle "If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities."    Maya Angelou "Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."    George Santayana "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."    Pablo Picasso "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."    Oscar Wilde "The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious."    Lester Bangs "Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."    Jacques Barzun "Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting."    Paul Rand "Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."    Paul Rand "Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations."    Paul Rand "People who love ideas must have a love of words, and that means, given a chance; they take a vivid interest in the clothes which words wear."    Beatrice Wade "It takes a long time to become young."    Pablo Picasso "It's unwise to pay too much, but is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done! If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better."    John Ruskin (1819-1900) "Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world."    Thomas Moore "Life is 1% what happens to you and 99% how you respond to it."    Chuck Swindoll "You speak an infinite amount of nothing."    Shakespeare "For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."    Apostle Paul speaking about Jesus in 1 Col. 1:16,17 "You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus."    Mark Twain "You can't polish a turd."    David Reddig "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."    Edmund Burke "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."    Michelangelo "All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties."    Charles W. Eliot "In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. Unless you¹ve got a good team, you can¹t do much with the other two."    Lee Iacocca "We want consumers to say, 'That¹s a hell of a product' instead of, 'That¹s a hell of an ad.' "    Leo Burnett, quoted in 100 :LEO's, Chicago, IL: Leo Burnett Company, p. 14 Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.    Italian proverb Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.    John Gardner If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.    Mary Pickford Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. -    Leonardo da Vinci Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.    Thomas Edison if you s