Candice Olson Quotes

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

Form follows beauty.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized that, really, it's pretty easy. Obviously it's more than just a set of rules, but the basics of design are actually pretty simple and quite mathematical. The link between data and design works at quite a fundamental level.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture, even if it's not recognized by the more elitist or pretentious members of the art world. Skateboarding itself requires creative adaptation to the streets and obstacles. My background as a skateboarder helped me to be a better street artist because I was already conditioned to look at the terrain opportunistically.

I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.