Cynthia Rowley Quotes

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.