"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
- Mark Twain
"Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art."
- Max Bill
"If the businessmen drink my blood,
Like the kids in art school said they would,
Then I guess I’ll just begin again,
You say, “can we still be friends?"
- Arcade Fire
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated."
- Paul Rand
"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
- Dr. Seuss
"The next time you see a sixteen-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn’t a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else."
- Milton Glaser
"Design is redesign."
- Jan Michl
Disney animator Glen Keane on how to draw/animate in three dimentions. (via Drawn)
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."
- Paul Erdos
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
- Cecil Beaton
"I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson