"[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality."

-- Lisa Loomer

#Issues Quotes #People Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or encourage us to change our thrust. I want people to be able to pick up this book in the future no matter what's going on in the world, and appreciate it on its own merits, not for any perceived winks at the headlines.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.”
“No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again...”
“I'm fighting hard - it's difficult under the weight of criticism but you have to take it”
“Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasnâ€™t Adolf Hitlerâ€™s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted heâ€™d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.”
“As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.”
“So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.”

Source : Michael Kroeger, Paul Rand (2008). “Paul Rand: Conversations with Students”, p.46, Princeton Architectural Press

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