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Quotes About Expression

Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.
~ Unknown
Some things are meant to live and die with an artist
~ Unknown
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
If only I could tell someone.The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace.We are created by being destroyed.
~ Franz Wright
To show his nervousness was not shameful
~ Unknown
One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes, In my words, you can rummage me!
~ Neelam Saxena Chandra
I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.
~ Colleen Atwood
Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.
~ Paula Scher
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
~ David Carson
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.
~ El Lissitzky
Design is thinking made visual.
~ Saul Bass
Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
~ Neville Brody
We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.
~ Neville Brody
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
~ Cristobal Balenciaga
Design is a dreadful form of expression
~ Philippe Starck
Space is the breath of art.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.
~ Saul Bass
Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.
~ Wim Crouwel
As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.
~ Matthew Carter
When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It's not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.
~ Ettore Sottsass
You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty
~ Yohji Yamamoto
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
~ Jeffrey Veen