Design Quotes Africa

 
"Sustainable design, appropriate responses to a given regional context, cultural appreciation and respect for the community impacted by their work, are among the approaches being adopted by those trend-setters who are emboldened to draw on the past as they solve the problems of tomorrow."
Chris Malan touches on Africa's new-wave architecture

"Africa has one of the fastest regional growth rates for luxury goods, second only to the Middle East - and by 2020, consumer spending is projected to exceed $1tn annually, according to McKinsey's Global Institute."
Montblanc Africa's Alain Dos Santos talks luxury brands on the continent

"We need to propose new forms and also constantly expand the sensibilities of both art and the world at large."
Ibrahim Mahama calls to expand the sensibilities of both art and the world at large

"Design thinking should be applied across all channels of communication and marketing. A holistic approach will actually aid and avoid creating a fragmented brand image, as well as dilute the brand differentiation, and consequently confusion the marketplace."
Rirhandzu Shingwenyana on using design-thinking as a strategic advantage

"The world has much to learn from Africa and the way in which young people are trained to manage the continent's resources in the future could stand as an example at a time when the whole world is facing the twin challenges of population growth and climate change."
Dr Harold Elletson on the impact of eLearning Africa's eLA Agriculture Track

"Africa has become a vacation destination, this is a place for everyone. You can never rely on what others say. You have to go and experience it for yourself."
Naomi Campbell speaking at the CNI Luxury Conference

"I am also a firm believer that design can and should have a positive impact on communities. This can be done through incorporating those communities in the design process."
Tshepo Mokholo on creating architecture for the African continent for the next century

"My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'"
Matt Groening

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent Van Gogh

"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."
Henri Matisse

"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."
Balthus

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
Edmund Hillary

"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
Salvador Dali

"Life is short, the art long."
Hippocrates

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
Thomas Aquinas

"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve."
Daniel Day-Lewis

"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views."
Mary Schmich

"If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?"
Stevie Nicks

"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Ezra Pound

"Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."
Claude Monet

"Every good painter paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock

"I start a picture and I finish it."
Jean-Michel Basquiat

"The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar."
Tom Ford

"I paint flowers so they will not die."
Frida Kahlo

"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
Leo Tolstoy

"I am my own muse, the subject I know best."
Frida Kahlo

"Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it."
David Hockney

"There is little success where there is little laughter."
Andrew Carnegie

"Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic."
Joseph B. Wirthlin

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