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    All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.

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    All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.

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    Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

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    As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

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    Beige is the color of indecision.

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    Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

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    Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it.

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    Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

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    Design always has a purpose.

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    Design exists to serve some purpose.

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    Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

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    Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.

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    For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's some mistrust from somebody saying it couldn't be a certain way, and overthrowing that. But that can happen at any point in history, at any time you come along. It doesn't get better or worse because you're born in this era or that era - I think it's more individualistic. It comes from within, you know, it's an internal thing.

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    Great design is serious, not solemn

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    Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.

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    Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

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    I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's who I was.

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    Identity means "how do I get known? How do I expressmyself?" and that's generally what I'm helping somebody do. It may be three dimensional, it may be a public space, it may involve government,it may involve cultural institutions, it may involve corporations, it may involve editorial publications - it can be anything, really.

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    I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

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    I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design "norm"that I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.

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    If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

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    I find that I'm at my least creative point when I am doing something that I've done in repetition and I know all the rules - I never break the rules because I know them.

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    I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.

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    I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

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    I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

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    I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

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    I'm hoping that I continue to be innovative on things that are tremendously visible and are still important projects.

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    I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

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    I never thought I'd be able to design all the things I've been able to design. I thought that I'd be far more limited to a specific kind of work, and I've been able to establish an incredibly broad practice in all different ways, and it's because the expectations have gotten elevated.

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    It could be that going to work is better than being home. But you should never think of days as the weekend. It should all be the same, it should all be stuff you want to do. And when it isn't then you have to change it, and you have to think about how you change it.

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    I think Apple is a wonderful example of spectacular marketing and I love having my iPod. There are the naysayers who say that "nyah, nyah, it breaks" and I think "well, I don't like what Microsoft made...

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    I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

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    I think that it's a great time to be a designer.

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    I think that the ability of people to accept new things is growing, and that's good for all of us.

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    I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that you can try these things and that something will happen.

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    It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

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    I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.

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    It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

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    Marketing implies that you want a public to relate to your product - if it's a product - in a way that makes them want to use it. That is only good or evil in relationship to what the product actually does.

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    Marketing is a necessary part of the creative process.

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    Marketing is neither good nor evil.

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    Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.

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    My expectation is that technology always changes.

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    My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because you become the firm that does that, or you become the person that does that. You really need to change the form to make the discovery.

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    My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.

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    New Zealand looks like the future to me

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    Planning involves considering how other people may use something.

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    Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.

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    Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.

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    Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.