Some of these are serious, inspiring and thought provoking ... and others are just silly.These quotes are geared towards design and photography!
Design Quotes:
"Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential." — Thomas J. Watson Jr.
"...Focus on simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple" — Steve Jobs
"Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead."
— Marty Neumier
"Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple." — Tim Parsey
"Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere." — Mieke Gerritzen
"I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is Accessibility. This is all design." — Mark Boulton
"To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it’s just planning." — Ayse Birsel
"People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing."
— Paola Antonelli
"Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future." — Robert L. Peters
"Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it’s good practice for dating."
— Heather Phillips
"A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time; the initial feel of the book fades away as the mind becomes engrossed in the words." — Mandy Brown
"I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about." — Carrie Phillips
"Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking." — Chris Pullman
Photography Quotes:
"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph." – Matt Hardy
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does." — John Berger
"I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good."
— Anonymous
"Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow." — Imogen Cunningham
"I often wished I could capture and share the sudden moments of beauty that I would see all around me."
— Caroline Mueller
"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." — Robert Heinecken
"Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'." — Ernst Haas
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution." — Ansel Adams
"Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure." — Tony Benn
"Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools."
— Ken Rockwell
"You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory." — Author Unknown
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." — Ansel Adams
"The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity." — Murphy's Rules
"I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."- Wynn Bullock
Here are the sites I found the quotes on, so you can go check them out for yourselves:
80+ Inspiring Quotes About Design
60 Design Quotes for Inspiration
Photography Quotes
Photography Quotes from Best Poems
Design Quotes:
"Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential." — Thomas J. Watson Jr.
"...Focus on simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple" — Steve Jobs
"Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead."
— Marty Neumier
"Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple." — Tim Parsey
"Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere." — Mieke Gerritzen
"I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is Accessibility. This is all design." — Mark Boulton
"To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it’s just planning." — Ayse Birsel
"People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing."
— Paola Antonelli
"Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future." — Robert L. Peters
"Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it’s good practice for dating."
— Heather Phillips
"A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time; the initial feel of the book fades away as the mind becomes engrossed in the words." — Mandy Brown
"I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about." — Carrie Phillips
"Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking." — Chris Pullman
Photography Quotes:
"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph." – Matt Hardy
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does." — John Berger
"I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good."
— Anonymous
"Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow." — Imogen Cunningham
"I often wished I could capture and share the sudden moments of beauty that I would see all around me."
— Caroline Mueller
"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." — Robert Heinecken
"Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'." — Ernst Haas
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution." — Ansel Adams
"Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure." — Tony Benn
"Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools."
— Ken Rockwell
"You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory." — Author Unknown
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." — Ansel Adams
"The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity." — Murphy's Rules
"I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."- Wynn Bullock
Here are the sites I found the quotes on, so you can go check them out for yourselves:
80+ Inspiring Quotes About Design
60 Design Quotes for Inspiration
Photography Quotes
Photography Quotes from Best Poems
