I have always found a good quote inspiring. They perfectly sum up short poignant messages. Here are a few of my favourites in no particular order.
The world is a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
A man may die, nations rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F Kennedy
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michaelangelo
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney
You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw
You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup’ery
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
Leo Burnett
No, Watson, this was not done by accident, but by design.
Sherlock Holmes
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand
Creative without strategy is called ‘art’. Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising’.
Jef I. Richards
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.
Douglas Martin