The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd. - Milton Glaser - Quotesmemo.com

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Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the difference between what’s real and what you’ve created in your head?

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Milton Glaser

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

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Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

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Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

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The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

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What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.

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Edie Sedgwick

Edie Sedgwick

Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the difference between what’s real and what you’ve created in your head?

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Paul Smith

In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where there was food, different perhaps from living in a city environment. I know such things as gas rationing did exist, but it wasn't anything that interfered with my daily activity.

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John Tillotson

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Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

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Keith Johnstone

I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish director, after he left. He said he'd read about [Eugeny] Vakhtangov. I'm a fan of his. When he heard that Vakhtangov had lots of tricks, he thought this was very bad. But when he came to be my student, he realised it was very good to have a lot of tricks. You saw some this morning.

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Kim Paffenroth

Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not seem to decay, at least, not to the point of disintegration and reintegration back into the soil, so the food chain, or the circle of life, seems to end or be short-circuited by their existence. Zombies fulfill the worst potentialities of humans to create a hellish kingdom on earth of endless, sterile repetition and boredom.

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