Design And Creativity Quotes

#1. We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.

Nick Harkaway

#2. Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Austin Kleon

#3. Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

Michael Bierut

#4. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Karl Lagerfeld

#5. Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

B. J. Fogg

#6. Creativity is to think more efficiently.

Pierre Reverdy

#7. I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#8. Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something.

Louis C.K.

#9. Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

Steve Krug

#10. You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Henri Matisse

#11. Effective problem solving in design requires a balance of strategy and spontaneity, intelligence and creativity.

Maggie Macnab

#12. Leave it better than you found it.

Robert Baden-Powell

#13. Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

David Berman

#14. I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

Jack Nicklaus

#15. Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

Tim Brown

#16. LEGO gives its designers cost parameters: they can design anything they want as long as it falls within budget. These cost limitations resulted in a spike of creativity. 4.

Ramon Vullings

#17. Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

Chuck Green

#18. I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Susan Orlean

#19. Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Karl Lagerfeld

#20. Absurdity and anti - absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Karl Lagerfeld

#21. As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect or design beforehand. Thus the realm of your creativity grows wider.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

#22. Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.

Ron Miriello

#23. Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

John Maeda

#24. If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.

Ken Robinson

#25. There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.

Tom Pappalardo

#26. Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

Naoto Fukasawa

#27. The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

Randall E. Stross

#28. It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

Michael Foley

#29. When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Biz Stone

#30. Many believe the process of creativity is one of assembling thoughts and concepts, but highly creative people will tell you that the idea, the song, the image, was in them, and their task was to get it out, a process of discovery, not design. This

Gavin De Becker

#31. It is the nature of intuition to spark and guide creativity, and it's an essential ingredient for anything "new" to happen in the world at all.

Maggie Macnab

#32. Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something - it creates a talking point.

Chris Arnold

#33. I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

Alex Steffen

#34. At Brit + Co, our mission is to unlock creativity, so we look for future employees that actively flex their creative muscles. The design of your resume is the first way to let me know more about your aesthetic.

Brit Morin

#35. Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Wynn Bullock

#36. Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk scene in regards to design and politics and fashion and stuff like that.

Bruce Pavitt

#37. If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

Jef Raskin

#38. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

Daniel H. Pink