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“The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.”

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William McDonough

William McDonough is a renowned American designer known for his contributions to the field of sustainable design. Born on February 21, 1951, he is a versatile designer with expertise in architecture, industrial design, and urban planning. more

“And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?”

Writing Self Use Water Nature Imagine Tree Design Food Color Seasons Down And Complexes Sugar Carbon Elegant Oxygen Knocking Fixing Assignments Replicate Nitrogen Distillation

Author:William McDonough

“I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.”

Thinking World Order Realizing Design Intention Designer Inherent Signals

Author:William McDonough

“If design is the first signal of human intention.”

Firsts Humans Design Intention Signals

Author:William McDonough

“Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.”

World Goal Water Air Healthy Safe Clean Enjoyed Soil Diverse Clean Air

Author:William McDonough

“In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.”

States Feelings Energy Levels Influence Currents Artistic Private Life Energy Levels

Author:Frank Auerbach

“I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.”

Thinking Desire Creative Influence Horror Office Creative Life

Author:Frank Auerbach

“I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.”

Order Finished Recalls Rework

Author:Frank Auerbach

“I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.”

World Mind Artist Remains Species New Things Living Things

Book:Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

Source: Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

“To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.”

People Art Moments Artist Imagination Magic Tables Corners Legs Painter Carpet

Book:Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

Source: Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978

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