The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.
— Massimo Vignelli
Devotion Artistic Life quotations
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.
Making your unknown known is the important thing.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot, but I mean a very broad thing with that. You could be a veterinarian, that's your art. Find your art; find your thing you love.
Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms... Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali.
They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time.
What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.
They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists.
My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.