John Maeda Quotes

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

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

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

I believe in art.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

I have so much love for art.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.