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"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
— Aristotle
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
—Pablo Picasso
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it."
— Andy Warhol
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
— Rumi
"The principles of true art are not to portray, but to evoke"
— Jerzy Kosinski
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
— Banksy
"Art must be an integral part of the struggle. It can't simply mirror what's taking place. It must aspire to shape the consciousness of those who are resistant."
— Amiri Baraka
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
— Oscar Wilde
"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity."
— Alberto Giacometti
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
— Twyla Tharp
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."
— Jerzy Kosinski
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
— Charles Horton Cooley
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
— Francis Bacon
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul."
— Theodore Dreiser
"Creativity takes courage"
— Henri Matisse
"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
— Edward Hopper
"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel."
— Piet Mondrian
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
— Salvador Dali
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul."
—Georgia O'Keefe
"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity."
— Alberto Giacometti
"There is only one type of designer — the type that cares about type."
— Rohan Nanavati
"Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration."
— Jeffrey Zeldman
"It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good."
— Paula Scher
"Where people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work."
— David Ogilvy
"Every great design begins with an even better story."
— Lorinda Mamo
"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations."
— Paul Rand
"Design is thinking made visual"
— Saul Bass
"Do not seek praise, seek criticism."
— Paul Arden
"A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good."
— Martin LeBlanc
"Get rid of everything that is not essential to making a point."
— Christopher Niemann
"Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It’s a few tricks to the brain."
— Neville Brody
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
— Steve Jobs