"Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among……" — Paul Rand
"Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients."
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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 Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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