Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?

Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful.