Visual Culture

“It is our job to find beauty and meaning in the everyday,”

Humberto Campana

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”

Alfred North Whitehead

“You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.”

Grace Lee Boggs

“Without play, there would be no Picasso. Without play, there is no experimentation. Experimentation is the quest for answers.”

Paul Rand

“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

Miles Davis

“Drawing is a way of reasoning on paper.”

Saul Steinberg

“I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.”

Katherine McCoy

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Milton Glaser

“I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I’ve never driven one.”

Stefan Sagmeister

“The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don’t go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.”

Banksy