Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.
Sometimes art imitates life.
I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
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