Sink or Swim

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. – Frank Zappa

If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing – Homer Simpson

Stick to your knitting (what you’re good at), don’t compromise, and don’t suffer fools. — Simon Campbell

Design is where science and art break even. — Robin Mathew

Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration. — Aaron Russell

I love the comment, “You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears. — Andrew Lewis

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint Exupéry

It’s not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven’t got the eye, no program will give it to you. — David Carson

If the reader notices the interior page design of a book – even if he or she likes what they see – I’ve missed, because I distracted them from their reading. — Stephen Tiano

Technology over technique produces emotionless design. — Daniel Mall

A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is. — Leo Frankowski

Design is intelligence made visible.

Imitation may be the “sincerest form of plagiarism,” but it is also the mark of an inferior person. — David Ogilvy

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. — Charles Mingus

There’s no shortcut for greatness. — Yasin Japardi

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso

The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong. — Marty Neumeier

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus. — David Hockney

All these from www.quotesondesign.com

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