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Quotes About Expression

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
~ Ettore Sottsass
I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.
~ Andree Putman
Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
~ Sun Ra
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.
~ Albert Hadley
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
~ Albert Camus
They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.
~ Unknown
You have to be interested in culture to design for it.
~ Unknown
Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.
~ Sara Genn
Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.
~ Unknown
What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
~ Rian Hughes
It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.
~ Robert Greenberg
Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.
~ Tibor Kalman
As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.
~ Erik Spiekermann
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
~ Ettore Sottsass
Design has to work. Art does not.
~ Donald Judd
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
~ Neil Gaiman
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
~ Vera Wang
Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
~ John Maeda
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
~ Pablo Picasso
I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Another word for creativity is courage.
~ Henri Matisse
The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.
~ Milton Glaser
I didnt think that personal style had much value in graphic design.
~ Stefan Sagmeister