You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking. George Nelson More Quotes by George Nelson More Quotes From George Nelson No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment. George Nelson design attitude integrity Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. George Nelson design cooking spirit Design is a response to social change. George Nelson social-change design social The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. George Nelson business simple hands I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were George Nelson mets designer Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate. George Nelson reality ideas What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbol? What is its name? Its name is Junk. Junk is the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time. Junk is your ultimate landscape. George Nelson names civilization years Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s. George Nelson modern responsible taste
