Here a a selection of art and design quotes that i like.
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.”
David Hockney
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
Gil Stern
“Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.”
Jeffery Veen
“Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.”
Erik Adigard
“Creative without strategy is called ‘art’. Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising’.”
Jef I. Richards
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
Juan Ramòn Jimènez
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!”
William Bernbach