Famous Quotes

"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."

Henri Matisse 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 Henri Matisse

• "I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

• "Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."

• "Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."

• "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

• "Creativity takes courage."