Joe Gebbia Quotes

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

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

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

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.'

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

I have been a designer all my life, and design, for me, is to share love and trust and show the future in a beautiful way. I have worked on this principle all my life.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Design is thinking made visual.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want to communicate with them when I make films, but that is not the only thing. I also want to say something which I feel deeply, and which I feel I can connect with the rest of the audience.

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?

I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my answers to the questions in 'The Lighthouse;' I need those in order to write and direct them.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

Artists have always been my biggest source of inspiration.

We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.