Otl Aicher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Good art inspires; Good design motivates.
-- Otl Aicher

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In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.
-- Otl Aicher

#Men #Animal #Design
The eyes are hungry but often satiated before they see.
-- Otl Aicher

#Eye #Hungry

The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May â€˜43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in â€˜42 - even in my position. This aircraft didnâ€™t have any priority in design or production.
Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

Otl Aicher famous quotes

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