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“The artists task is to contribute to evolution, encourage the mind, guarantee a detached view of social changes, conjure up positive energies, create sensuousness, reconcile reason and instinct, research possibilities and destroy clichés and prejudices.”

— Pipilotti Rist

(via Danielle Wilde)

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“It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture.'”

— John Cage

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Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.

— SHAKER PHILOSOPHY

(via the digging into worpress book)

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If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.

—Henry Ford

(Maybe the customer or customer survey or customer based algorithm is NOT always right?)

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creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. design is knowing which ones to keep.

— Scott Adams

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I wanted to get to non-art, non-connotative, non-anthropomorphic, non-geometric, non, nothing, everything, but of another kind, vision, sort, from a total other reference point.

— Eva Hesse

(via Leah Wechsler on FB)