"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master." – Milton Glaser
"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus." – David Hockney
"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute." – Gil Stern
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose." – Charles Eames
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." – Henry David Thoreau
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." – Leonardo da Vinci
"The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions." – Diane Ackerman
"Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures." – Jeffery Veen
"Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy." – Erik Adigard
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." – Douglas Adams
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." – Stella Adler
"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 recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes." – D. H. Lawrence
"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it." – Miguel de Cervantes
"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite." – Paul Gauguin
"Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good." – Clement Mok
