“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

— Bill Cosby

“I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.”

— Blaise Pascal

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

— Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
or Yogi Berra

“You cannot tell art by virtue of medium, or function, or anything else except by the fact of its raising your consciousness to a degree that you are attentive. And so if something produces the state of attentiveness, whether it’s a drawing, or a guy making a cheese sandwich, we can call it art, at least by my description. I have no other criteria for judging what art is.”

— Milton Glaser

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

— John Maeda

“Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.”

— Andy Warhol

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

— Mark Twain

“The artists task is to contribute to evolution, encourage the mind, guarantee a detached view of social changes, conjure up positive energies, create sensuousness, reconcile reason and instinct, research possibilities and destroy clichés and prejudices.”

— Pipilotti Rist

(via Danielle Wilde)

“It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture.’”

— John Cage

Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.

— SHAKER PHILOSOPHY

(via the digging into worpress book)