#sign

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

#art-theory #creativity #design #emotion #matisse

What separates design from art is that design is meant to be... functional. ↗

— Cameron Moll

#art

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. ↗

— Piet Hein

#design #art

He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist.It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must ne found either in action, of some immensely solid kind,on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts. ↗

— Henry James

#grand-designs #purpose-of-life #reformer #art

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#perspective #pursuit #science #significance #trivia

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer. ↗

— Peter Stanyer

#artist #design #drawing #truth #art

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. ↗

— Tommy Armour

#bodily #designed #golf #graceful #produce

A Marquetry Odyssey: Historical Objects and Personal Work ↗

— by Glenn Adamson Foreword By Silas Kopf

#design-furniture #marquetry #art

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #class #dressing #fashion-designer #image

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs ↗