Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

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

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.

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

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.