QUOTATIONS FROM HERE AND ABOVE
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“The details are details. They make the product.
The connections, the connections, the connections.
It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.”
– Charles Eames
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“If i could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint”
– Edward Hopper
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“A chair is only finished when someone sits on it”
– Hans Wegner
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“Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent”
– Joe Saprano
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“Good designers copy; great designers steal”
– Pablo Picasso
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“We don’t stop playing because we grow old,
we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is easy and lazy – but mysterious.
But above all Black says this; i don’t bother you – don’t bother me.”
– Yohji Yamamoto
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“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which
makes art inevitable.”
– Robert Henri
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“When in doubt, take a bath”
– Mae West
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“Design is so simple, that is why it is so complicated”
– Paul Rand
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
– Charles Darwin
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“That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it”
– Alberto Giacometti
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“Simplicity is complexity resolved”
– Constantin Brancusi
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
– Marcel Proust
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“Facts or fantasy ? Only beliefs really count”
– Merlin the wizard (Merlin l’enchanteur)
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“The ocean is the ultimate solution”
– Frank Zappa
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“I start a picture and i finish it. I don’t think about art while i work. I try to think about life”
– Jean-Michel Basquiat
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“… c’est véritablement utile puisque c’est joli”
– Le Petit Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“Only when you can be extremely pliable can you be extremely hard and strong”
– Zen proverb
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“Fashions fade, style is eternal”
– Yves St-Laurent
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“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by product of a good idea and modest expectations”
– Paul Rand
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“It’s not about the world of design. It’s about the design of the world”
– Bruce Mau
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“You cannot use up creativity. The more you use the more you have”
– Maya Angelou
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“If you’re painting a masterpiece, make sure to hide the brushstrokes”
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“Leave the gun, take the cannolis”
– Pete Clemenza (in Godfather)
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“For me, physical comfort goes through intellectual comfort”
– Konstantin Grcic
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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”
– Albert Einstein
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“Music is a mysterious kind of mathematics, the elements of which are part of eternity.
It lives in the movement of water, in the play of the waves in the changing winds; there is nothing more musical than a sunset!
For those who look and listen with their hearts, the best theory of evolution is written in a book that musicians rarely read: the book of nature”
– Claude Debussy