Quotes About Expression

Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

I like to do designs on the side of my face, or cut out foil stickers from the crafts store and put them on my forehead.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy.

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

When typography is on point, words become images.

Each artwork requires its own design

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.