Quotes About Expression

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Design does not really interest me

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

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

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

You can wear them with anything. It's the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don't get tired of it.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

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.

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

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.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.