"Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas."

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Source : Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

Chip Kidd

#Art Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I'm a girl, and I celebrate being a girl, and it was really important to me to celebrate the beauty that I could create in a movie like the one I did, aesthetically, in terms of the costumes and the production design. I wanted something big and lush and beautiful and unashamedly feminine.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.”
“I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.”
“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
“It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.”
“Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.45, Egmont UK
“You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 729-31, Speech at Ennis (19 September 1880), 1922.

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