Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I create stars.

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn’t refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

People love photos. Photos originally weren’t that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I’m sure it’s illegal. It’s also an effort to undermine free speech.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

Plato was a bore.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Art is the proper task of life.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.