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

What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.

The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

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

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

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

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.