April Greiman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.
-- April Greiman

#Emotional #Design #Experience
Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them [the students] unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.
-- April Greiman

#Teacher #Voice #Design
I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.
-- April Greiman

#Eccentric
I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.
-- April Greiman

#Fear #Steps #Jitters
I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.
-- April Greiman

#Order #Balance #Layers

I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.
[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Experience is never at bargain price.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

April Greiman famous quotes

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