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It&#8217;s called design.&#8221; ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/brian-webb\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/159253127X?ie=UTF8&tag=css-tricks-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=159253127X\">book<\/a>"}},{"ID":851,"title":"Ruby Vanderlans","content":"I don&#8217;t think that all people read in the same way. Today, entire generations are growing up watching MTV and playing video games and it is safe to assume that these people have a high degree of visual sophistication. and are not easily discouraged by a lens straightforward or ambiguous typography. On the contrary, they are attracted and enticed to read something because of visual richness. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/ruby-vanderlans\/"},{"ID":1921,"title":"Kris Sowersby","content":"Like <em>McDonalds<\/em> proves, popular doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean good. I&#8217;m not particularly interested in what&#8217;s popular; I&#8217;m much more interested in what&#8217;s good.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/kris-sowersby\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/8faces.com\/\">8 Faces Vol. 3<\/a>"}},{"ID":1381,"title":"Eleanor Roosevelt","content":"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can&#8217;t live long enough to make them all yourself. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/eleanor-roosevelt\/"},{"ID":923,"title":"Peter Landt","content":"A successful design career is possible without forfeiting self-respect as long as you do not undervalue (or overvalue) your work. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/peter-landt\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/designis.ms\/brand-identity\/the-crowdsourced-brand\/\">article<\/a>"}},{"ID":30,"title":"Pierre Bonnard","content":"Colour does not add a pleasant quality to design &#8211; it reinforces it. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/pierre-bonnard\/"},{"ID":1171,"title":"Bob Gill","content":"Be stimulated by rejection. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/bob-gill\/"},{"ID":2456,"title":"Tony Stanton","content":"Design to communicate, not just decorate.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/tony-stanton\/"},{"ID":760,"title":"Antoine De Saint Exupery","content":"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/antoine-de-saint-exupery-3\/"},{"ID":68,"title":"Eliel Saarinen","content":"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context &#8211; a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/eliel-saarinen\/"},{"ID":1790,"title":"Bernard Shaw","content":"Interesting things never happen to me. I happen to them.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/bernard-shaw\/"},{"ID":1651,"title":"Marc Grabanski","content":"Hackers don\u2019t need idea people when they are the idea people.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/marc-grabanski\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/marcgrabanski.com\/articles\/long-live-the-hacker-entrepreneurs\">article<\/a>"}},{"ID":407,"title":"Peter Phillips","content":"Often design departments are viewed as little decoration groups&#8230; They&#8217;ll make everything look pretty. Well, I can tell you, that doesn&#8217;t work. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/peter-phillips\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/159253127X?ie=UTF8&tag=css-tricks-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=159253127X\">book<\/a>"}},{"ID":2233,"title":"Kyle Matthew Hansen","content":"Complexity is the enemy of reliability.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/kyle-matthew-hansen\/"},{"ID":24,"title":"Miguel de Cervantes","content":"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/miguel-de-cervantes\/"},{"ID":2502,"title":"Viran Anuradha Dayaratne","content":"As designers, you live in the future. It&#8217;s not that we are not interested in the work we&#8217;ve done before; it&#8217;s just we are so consumed by what we haven&#8217;t done yet.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/viran-anuradha-dayaratne-2\/"},{"ID":1213,"title":"Albert Einstein","content":"If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/albert-einstein-6\/"},{"ID":858,"title":"Louis Silverstein","content":"It isn&#8217;t a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/louis-silverstein\/"},{"ID":1709,"title":"David Karp","content":"For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don\u2019t do that, and it\u2019s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it\u2019s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/david-karp\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/201106\/the-way-i-work-david-karp-of-tumblr.html\">article<\/a>"}},{"ID":1430,"title":"Melinda Santillian","content":"Being able to take ideas and transform them into something tangible is life-affirming. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/melinda-santillian\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightlife.ca\/mode-design\/adieu-tuff-ghost\">interview<\/a>"}},{"ID":1962,"title":"Lao Tse","content":"Thirty spokes meet in the hub,<br \/>\nbut the empty space between them<br \/>\nis the essence of the wheel.Pots are formed from clay,<br \/>\nbut the empty space within it<br \/>\nis the essence of the pot.Walls with windows and doors<br \/>\nform the house,<br \/>\nbut the empty space within it<br \/>\nis the essence of the home.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/lao-tse\/"},{"ID":1580,"title":"Warren Buffett","content":"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/warren-buffett\/"},{"ID":2049,"title":"George Lois","content":"To create great work, here&#8217;s how you must spend your time:1% Inspiration<br \/>\n9% Perspiration<br \/>\n90% Justification","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/george-lois\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/fatatommarketing.com\/90-justification\/\">article<\/a>"}},{"ID":239,"title":"Ellen Lupton","content":"Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking. ","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/ellen-lupton\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1568984480?ie=UTF8&tag=css-tricks-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1568984480\">book<\/a>"}},{"ID":2492,"title":"Andy J. Pizza","content":"Nothing will crush your creative career like the weight of trying to make it a masterpiece.Leave the art to the stuff you make, let the career be a big messy experiment.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/andy-j-pizza\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/owltastic\/p\/BvCLWeaBFnx\/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=fm1hs3lfs0wk\">instagram<\/a>"}},{"ID":1909,"title":"Brian Wangila","content":"All the magic, be it in code or design, starts with a clear mind, pen and a blank paper.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/brian-wangila\/"},{"ID":1658,"title":"Rob Morris","content":"If it were easy to nut out tricky design problems, I might be out of a job. But it\u2019s also true that the cleverness in most lateral design doesn\u2019t come from blindly grinding away at the same concept. When you\u2019re dealing with ideas, it\u2019s rarely a matter of simply putting in more time working. Five minutes can be much more fruitful than five hours.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/rob-morris\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmash.com\/journal\/articles\/play\/\">article<\/a>"}},{"ID":2207,"title":"Robert Nealan","content":"Man up, admit it isn\u2019t good enough, and fix it now.","link":"https:\/\/quotesondesign.com\/robert-nealan\/","custom_meta":{"Source":"<a href=\"http:\/\/robertnealan.com\/m-v-p-not-m-v-p-o-s\/\">article<\/a>"}}]
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