Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

~ Coco Chanel

“Throwing away ideas too soon is like opening a package of flower seeds and then throwing them away because they’re not pretty.”

~ Arthur VanGundy, Ph.D.

“The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

~ Edwin H. Land

“Work to become, not to acquire.”

~ Elbert Hubbard

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”

~Edgar Degas

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

~Oprah Winfrey

“It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.”

~Carlton Fisk

“The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.”

~ Leo Burnett

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”

~Susan Sontag

“Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination.”

~ Carol Lloyd

“Creativity is an advertising agency’s most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.”

~Jef I. Richards

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

~ Albert Einstein

“Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era – it’s a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.”

~Clement Mok

“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”

~Salvador Dali

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep”

~ Scott Adams

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”

~ Diana Scharf Hunt

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”

~Mary Lou Cook

“The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.”

~  Grace Paley

“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
~ Steve Jobs