20 Motivating Design Quotes

While using Stumbleupon, a giant mash-up of everything cool, I found this great article called "20 Motivating Design Quotes for Graphic Designers."Though a lot of them apply to artists in general, it really made me rethink how I design or how I came to want to design. A few definitely caught my attention and stirred up more thoughts than they probably should have.

"Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up." Since I could hold a pen, I have been drawing in every single Disney book I had, on every wall in my house, and on all the tables up until mid-teens when I began to enter contests for drawing and painting. I know a lot of people that said they wanted to be an "artist" when they grow up when we were asked in elementary school, yet I am one of two in my graduating class of 120 kids to go on to pursue an art degree in college. I think a lot of people get the creativity pushed out of them because they "need" to pursue a more "realistic" career. For me, I'm glad I was able to stick with what I love and enjoy every minute of it (except for when I'm an hour before a deadline and only halfway done).

"Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn't theirs." Let's be real, whenever we present work, all of us see at least one design and think, "Why didn't I think of that?" It's part of making what seems to be obvious strengthened by good design and concepts.

"Those who do not want to imitate anything produce nothing." We all derive inspiration from somewhere and I know sometimes it feels like everything has already been done, but I love this quote because it shows how you need to find inspiration from something to create the wireframe for a design. It could be shapes, colors, textures, or anything that you see and moves you to create something even better by being influenced.

You should definitely check out the other quotes, they could make you rethink an idea so simple and inspire your designs!