| "I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." John Constable (1776 - 1837) |
| "An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." Dr Edwin Land |
| "The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw." Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), Impressions and Comments (1914). |
| "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." Dr. Theodore Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss |
| "He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'" Irving Stone, Lust for Life, 1934; a fictionalised biography of Vincent van Gogh. |
| "Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten" Gucci family motto |
| "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." Albert Einstein |
| "When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art." Marc Chagall, Russian/French painter and stained glass artist, 1887-1985 |
| "Creative people should be sales people because design is a function of selling." Duan Coetzee |
| "Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." Salvador Dali (Spanish painter). |
| "There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain." Georges Braque |
| "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when you grow up." Pablo Picasso |
| "The only thing that has ever made me feel old is those times where I allow myself to be predictable." Carlos Santana |
| "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." Francis Bacon |
| "I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." Orson Welles |
| "Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing." Isaac D'Israeli |
| "Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly." Chateaubriand |
| "The more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money." Jonathan Ive, Designer of the iMac, iBook and iPod, at college when he used a Mac for the first time |
| "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." Juan Ramòn Jimènez |
| "We adore chaos because we love to produce order." M. C. Escher |
| "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." Henry David Thoreau |
| "Ah good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness." Pablo Picasso |
| "Contentment: The smother of invention." Ethel Mumford |
| "Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten." Gucci family slogan |
| "Art is the lie that reveals the truth." Pablo Picasso |
| "It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning." Salvador Dali |
| "No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist." Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." John Lennon |
| "When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme." Jiminy Cricket |
| "Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition." Jani Allan |
