Jul 4, 2011

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. (Frank O'Hara)
Art is science made clear. (Wilson Mizner)
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. (Marshall Mcluhan)
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it. (Banksy)
Genius ain't nothing more than elegant common sense. (Josh Billings)
The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. (Lester Bangs)
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.(General George S. Patton)
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.(George-Louis De Buffon)
Paranoics also have enemies! (Ricardo Piglia)
You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can tell how much it costs. (Carter USM)
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. (Charles J. Givens)
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. (George Santayana)
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. (Steve Jobs)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams)

Jun 30, 2011

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. (Francois de la Rochefoucauld)
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. (Ludwig Börne)
The writer wants to write his lie and writes his truth. (Ramon Gomez de la Serna)
Only the poet has a moondial. (Ramon Gomez de la Serna)
Even a stopped clock tells the time twice a day. (Bruce Robinson)
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. (Lee Segall)
If it works, it's obsolete. (Marshall McLuhan)
People ignore design that ignores people. (Frank Chimero)
Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever. (Jack Moffet)
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. (Henri Louis Bergson)
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. (Kurt Vonnegut)
An important aspect of design is the degree to which the object involves you in its own completion. (Brian Eno)
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. (William Blake)
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. (Dorothy Parker)
The great thing about being an architect is that you can walk into your dreams.
(Harold E. Wagoner)
Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward. They have no identities. They are probes. (Marshall McLuhan)
A well-defined problem is half solved. (Michael Osborne)
Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant. (J.G. Ballard)
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. (Oscar Wilde)
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. (Warren Buffet)
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. (Hermann Hesse)
When we build, let us think that we build for ever. (John Ruskin)
Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror. (Juan-Carlos Fernàndez)
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. (Tom Waits)