“As long as the message is pure, the more gently it is spoken, the more forcefully it will reverberate into the world’s receptive places, as a penetrating whisper.” – Kenya Hara

“I don’t want to be original, I want to be good” — Mies

“Pushpin Studios brilliantly married conceptual imagery (both illustration and photography) with eclectic, often decorative typography. They did so to make a specific point or to tell a joke. It seemed to me to be the most generous form of design. It told you what you needed to know and entertained you at the same time.” — Paula Scher

“If I can’t think it, I can’t do it.” — George Orwell

“To maintain any creative longevity a designer today must reinvent his or her work every five years. This does not mean simply changing style. It means reassessing one’s approach — again, design is an art of planning — and finding a way that is new yet still reflects on one’s core ethic and aesthetic. This entails a reevaluation of one’s visual vocabulary, new technologies, the cultural zeitgeist, and the scale on which one works. Reinvention is personal growth.” — Paula Scher

Not about design per se, but creativity:

“Creativity can solve almost any problem.
The Creative Act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”

George Lois

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