Illustration + Design

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

—Scott Adams

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man falling out of a window during the time it takes him to get from the fifth story to the ground, then you will never be able to produce monumental work.

—Eugène Delacroix

The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.

—Tibor Kalman

Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

—Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

—Charles James

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

—G. K. Chesterton

We make things for somebody. The idea of art for art’s sake is a hoax.

—Pablo Picasso

Great design can and does change the world. Poor design can and does ruin lives.

—Scott McCloud

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

—Douglas Adams

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

—Sir Alec Issigonis

May your work be in keeping with your purpose and design.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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

—Milton Glaser