"If you have ideas and imagery, technique will follow." Unknown Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her. Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her. After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him. Picasso replies: "$5,000." The woman screamed, "but it took you only five minutes." "No, madam, it took me all my life," replied Picasso. Unknown Source for Story "One must seek solutions that are engaging and demanding visually." Unknown "Creation implies self-creation; the making of an aesthetic object implies the generation of the artist." Unknown "Harmony is the grandest artistic aim." Unknown "Modern French painting is all right; it has produced many beautiful and interesting things, fully worthy of admiration, but it has also set up response habits among our artistic authorities which have worked against a free approach to other artistic forms. These habits, objectified in numerous critical and appreciative essays, have crystallized into standards which, while they may be effective momentarily for the French painting responsible for them, have little or no validity when applied to other kinds." Thomas Hart Benton "Art gives voice to that which has not been spoken." Unknown "The secret of all effective 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 "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 "There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. 'Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.'" Albert Renger-Patzsch, "Joy before the Object" 1928 "A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique." Primo Angeli "Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one." Stella Adler "Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." André Gide "I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." Orson Welles "What garlic is to food, insanity is to art." Unknown "Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh "There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke." Vincent Van Gogh "The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things — but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all." John Cassavetes "Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions." Anonymous "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life." John Homer Miller "Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. " Chief Seattle "If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities." Maya Angelou "Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors." George Santayana "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." Oscar Wilde "The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious." Lester Bangs "Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning." Jacques Barzun "Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting." Paul Rand "Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated." Paul Rand "Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations." Paul Rand "People who love ideas must have a love of words, and that means, given a chance; they take a vivid interest in the clothes which words wear." Beatrice Wade "It takes a long time to become young." Pablo Picasso "It's unwise to pay too much, but is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done! If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better." John Ruskin (1819-1900) "Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world." Thomas Moore "Life is 1% what happens to you and 99% how you respond to it." Chuck Swindoll "You speak an infinite amount of nothing." Shakespeare "For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." Apostle Paul speaking about Jesus in 1 Col. 1:16,17 "You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain "You can't polish a turd." David Reddig "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo "All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties." Charles W. Eliot "In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. Unless you¹ve got a good team, you can¹t do much with the other two." Lee Iacocca "We want consumers to say, 'That¹s a hell of a product' instead of, 'That¹s a hell of an ad.' " Leo Burnett, quoted in 100 :LEO's, Chicago, IL: Leo Burnett Company, p. 14 Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. Italian proverb Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John Gardner If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. Mary Pickford Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison if you sit in the middle of the road, eventually you will get run over. Anon |
Theory into Practice
