Cynthia Rowley Quotes

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

I'm very interested in how visual artists think because I think the way that I think about music is similar. I'm very inspired by aesthetics and space.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

Design is an unknown.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

I paint abstract expressions.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.