Famous Quotes

"Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways."

Barbara Kruger on Design

More quotes about Design

• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

  Steve Jobs on Design

• "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

  Walt Disney on Design

• "The artist in me cries out for design."

  Robert Frost on Design

• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Design

• "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

  Erma Bombeck on Design

More quotes by Barbara Kruger

• "Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes."

• "All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary."

• "I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race."

• "I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty."

• "What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."