"The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes."

Design, Art, Sense

4

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes."

Explore more quotes by David Rockefeller

"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."

Events

"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

Content

"A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works."

Old

"Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility."

Life

"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education."

Education

"I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived."

Hope

"Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm."

Family

"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart."

Heart

"The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing."

Christian

"I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment."

Art

Exlpore more Design quotes

"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

Douglas Trumbull, American Director

Design, Computer, Film

"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."

Jim Henson, American Entertainer

Design, Work, Thought, Selling

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Design, Purpose, Blind, Evil

"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

Robert Shea, American Author

Design, Society, May

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

Calvin Klein, American Designer

Design, People, Company, Production

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

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Design, Mistake, People, Fools

"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."

Jim Henson, American Entertainer

Design, Acting, Theatre

"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese Scientist

Design, Consistency, Goal, Tools

"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."

Liz Phair, American Musician

Design, Public

"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."

Mike Davidson, American Designer

Design, Successful, Communication, Project