"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."

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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men."

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"Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs."

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"God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision."

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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

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"Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

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"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."

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"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."

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"I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people."

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"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."

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