Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

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.

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

Yep, ouch. He and apologies didn’t get along.

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

I think maybe because I moved a lot in my childhood, I'm a little bit of a gypsy by nature.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.

Everything fails, all the time.