Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

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.

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes.

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.