Jeff Smith Quotes

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'

My fashion cues come from my work, not the ramps of the world. I just keep working with so much colour, texture and structure, it rubs off!

When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making sure they're realized on the catwalk, and just how much hangs on it for the designers. Their livelihoods hang in the balance, as far as whether this year's collection works for them or not, and there are so many people's jobs on the line, as a result of that. I just had no idea.

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

You could say science also is an art.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

Design is everything.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.