Dieter Rams Quotes

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

I've been doing documentaries for about 25 years and want to continue to do that, but I love the idea of working in a different medium. Advertising pushes the envelope creatively, and there is some really great work being done right now, so I'm excited to jump into it.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

If you accept the privilege of public service, you had better understand the responsibilities of public service.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.