Friday Five: Five Unrelated Quotes with Accompanying Collages

1. “We need too much too quickly for any handwork to keep up…the craftsman is today outside of the great process of industrial production: the designer belongs to it.” — Anni Albers, 1943

   

2. “The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.” — Alexander Calder

   

3. “I think most designers are self-indulgent, illiterate…a fashion-mongering bunch of people who cannot speak on any subject except their own.” — Ivan Chermayeff

   

4. “[Beethoven] moves so strangely and quite suddenly from place to place in his music, in the late quartets. He knows where he’s going and he just doesn’t want to waste all that time getting there. One is aware of this as one gets older. You can’t waste time.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

   

5. “Toys and games are the preludes to serious ideas.” — Charles Eames