Favorite Quotes

Art is never finished, only abandoned. – Leonardo da Vinci

I’ve had my share of failure of the years. But if you’re not making mistakes, it’s imposible to move forward. Robert M. Greenberg

There is no such thing as a group if beautiful letters. It has to be a beautiful group of letters – Mathew Carter

I have a motto that anything that is completed is beautiful, and if it is not completed it isn’t revy good at all – Paul MacCready

Creativity is to share what you like and to express what you feel – Jean-Claude Vrinat

In the end it’s the eye, being willing to say, ‘I know they always do it that way, but let’s do it this way because it looks better – Stuart Allan

What I enjoy is doing what I don’t know how to do yet – Jack Lenor Larson

It’s not what technologies you develop, it’s how you think about them – Aron Lanier

God is in the details – Hillman Curtis

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works. – Earnest Hemingway

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. – Charles Eames

The recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When people feel they had to express themselves for originality for its own sake, that tends not to be creativity. Only when you get into the problem and the problem becomes clear, can creativity take over. – Charles Eames

The details are not the details. They make the design. – Charles Eames

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. – Paul Rand

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself. – Ferdinand Porsche