"For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction."

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Source : "(Designed by) DAVID CARSON / Speak, an edgy new magazine for the video generation pushes, folds and mutilates the visual envelope" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. March 05, 1996.

David Carson

#Interesting Quotes #Design Quotes #Training Quotes

“Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.”
“Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you won't necessarily get noticed just for turning in good performances.”
“I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.”
“The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”
“I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.”
“I want to be a guy who can be relied upon.”
“When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder..”

Source : In 'New York Times' 8 November 1970, p. 45
“Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.”

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