"Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics.……" — Paul Rand
"Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
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Paul Rand
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28 Quotes by Paul Rand
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Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no…
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative…
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Design is everything. Everything!
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The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a…
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Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select…
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Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the…
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Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows,…
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Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or…
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I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism...…
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If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it…
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More Aesthetics Quotes
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes…
— Peter Vidmar
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and…
— Albert Einstein
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative…
— Edwin Land
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
— Barnett Newman
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An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful…
— Tim Benton
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust…
— Werner Herzog
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science…
— Louis Althusser
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I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because…
— Sally Mann
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