I couldn’t agree more!

“The creative adult is the child who survived.”

- U. LeGuin

— Via Swiss Miss, via VisualNews

On Digging holes & life

Although I couldn’t agree more, sometimes its hard to know, or accept, that your “digging a hole” in the wrong place.

“If you’re digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn’t help anything.”

— Via SwissMiss, Seymour Chwast (via Michael Bierut at the BrandNewConference)

On good, a quote by Paul Rand

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

— Paul Rand, via Jason Santa Maria

Albert Einstein on Simplicity

“Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

— Albert Einstein, via Design Quotes Display

Quotes on Design: Ståle Melvær

“Stop looking at yourself as a designer, and start thinking of yourself as a deliverer of ideas.”

— Ståle Melvær via Design Quotes Display

Quotes on Design: Kevin Mullet

Today is the start of a jam packed week for me so I needed a little design inspiration. I have 3 major deadlines, two of which are today and this quote really hits to the work that needs to be done. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Its something I’m always looking to do.

“The most powerful designs are always the result of a continuous process of simplification and refinement.”

— Kevin Mullet, Via Design Quotes Display

Louis Kahn on the nature of Art

“The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.”

— Via Bobulate

“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”

— Louis Kahn, Architect

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

— Chinese Proverb

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”

— Unknown Via @tinybuddha