Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Creativity's about ownership.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

Do what you want to do in life and you will see what life will do to you on earth. What you always do, pays what it always pays!

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.

I feel like a new person. Not because of my career, but just because of what I've had to go through to pursue my career.

Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.

If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn’t imagine belonging to anyone else.

The more we give away, the more is given to us.

Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.