"Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything."

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Source : Michael Bierut (2012). “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”, p.13, Chronicle Books

Michael Bierut

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“Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.”
“As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.”
“I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.”
“Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press
“You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.”
“For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2016). “The Terror: Machen's Collection”, p.37, VM eBooks
“Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.”

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