Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Creativity's about ownership.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds.

Im most likely to succeed at failing but the point is your succeeding.

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.

Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue.