Kenya Hara Quotes

#1. Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

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#2. Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.

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#3. White is a particularly unusual color because it can also be seen as the absence of color.

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#4. Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.

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#5. Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.

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#6. White can be attained by blending all the colors of the spectrum together, or through the substraction of ink and all other pigments. In short, it is "all colors" and "no color" at the same time.

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#7. Verbalizing design is another act of design.

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#8. The essence of design ... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

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#9. White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

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#10. Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.

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