| "The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it." Michael Behe |
| "Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities." Robert H. Schuller |
| "Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition." Freeman Thomas |
| "Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognise it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes." David Herbert Lawrence |
| "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher |
| "Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world." George Santayana |
| "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." George Bernard Shaw |
| "Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold." James Randolph Adams |
| "Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling." Madeleine L'Engle |
| "Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation." Max Ernst |
| "I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind." Emily Bronte |
| "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle |
| "An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation." Joseph Conrad |
| "Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model." Vincent van Gogh |
| "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." G. K. Chesterton |
| "In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light." Hans Hofmann |
| "The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists." G.K. Chesterton |
| "A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." Louis Nizer |
| "The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships." Leo Burnett |
| "Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves." Lewis Carroll |
| "Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity." Jenaiha Woods |
| "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams |
| "It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." Henry David Thoreau |
| "Variety is not the spice of life; it is the very stuff of it." Christopher Burney, Solitary Confinement, 1952. |
| "Water which is too pure has no fish." Ts'ai Ken T'an |
| "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." Vincent van Gogh |
| "An image . . . is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service." Daniel Boorstin |
| "Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen." Leonardo da Vinci |
| "Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness." Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) |
