Studying technical design and art gave me the ability to…

Amazingly, my first project at Granta was the Sex issue. Given my own proclivity for the nuances of hedonistic and sexual exploration, partly through…

— Michael Salu

Museums are important. Design and art schools are important because they show how it should be done at the highest level of quality. Once…

— John Maeda

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave…

— Gerald Stern

Design, art, and science are all a melange.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“Design is art optimized to meet objectives.”

— Shimon Shmueli

Design is art that people use,

— Ellen Lupton

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…

— D. H. Lawrence

What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes…

— John Maeda

Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is…

— Ellen Lupton

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an…

— Vaughan Oliver

“What separates design from art is that design is meant to be... functional . ”

— Cameron Moll

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

— Paul Rand

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

— Massimo Vignelli

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or…

— Diane von Furstenberg

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

— Paula Scher