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To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.
— Paul Rand
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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.
— Paul Rand
Tags: pictures, job, together, words
A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.
— Paul Rand
Tags: written, habits, rules, style
In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.
— Paul Rand
Tags: human, rules, religion, you
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.
— Paul Rand
Tags: day, integrity, simplicity, me
Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
— Paul Rand
Tags: content, without, speed, aesthetic
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