Papanek Victor Quotes & Sayings

Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to be lived with eager expectation of its goodness, not in dread of its challenges. — Joan D. Chittister

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few. — Victor Papanek

Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul. — Scott Bakula

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression . — Jiddu Krishnamurti

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page. — Philip Gerard

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures. — Victor Papanek

Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity. — Armando Valladares

Books, like friends, shoould be few and well-chosen. — Samuel Paterson

In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation. — Victor Papanek

If you have an outstanding product, world class content, or something else that sets you apart, then you can step back and start thinking about how to promote it. — Matt Cutts

Redemption. What a laughable concept. When he looked over his life, he couldn't see where he had first stepped off the righteous path. More important, had he even ever laid a single foot on that path? — Michael R. Fletcher

Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end ... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life. — Victor Papanek

Call that a wonder, Cretan-born woman? 9970 Never listened when poetry Sang its sweet lessons? Ionia's and Hellas's Ancientest legends Of a gods-and-heroes abundance, Never heard them? Nothing that's done today's More than a pitiful Echo of glorious Ancestral days; 9980 Nothing, your story is, Compared with the lovely lie, More trustworthy than truth, That is sung about Maia's son. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it. — Victor Papanek

The only thing money is good for, Marie, is buying time. The time to do the things you like. — Michelle Moran

Mother warns
how we act today
foretells the whole year — Thanhha Lai

Given involuntarily, and in an atmosphere of distrust, pain is torture, whatever the motive," suggests David. "But given consensually, between equals, pain can be a most incredible form of love. — Geoff Mains

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today. — Victor Papanek

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical. — Victor Papanek

But I don't believe that the future gives us signs. I think that we look back and read the past with the present in our eyes. — Cath Crowley

All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people. — Victor Papanek

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. — Victor Papanek

We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A ... student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education ... — Victor Papanek

I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don't know what that event will be. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product. — Victor Papanek

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order — Victor Papanek