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Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.
Kenya Hara
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The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.
Kenya Hara
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Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.
Kenya Hara
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White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.
Kenya Hara
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Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.
Kenya Hara
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Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.
Kenya Hara
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Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.
Kenya Hara
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Verbalizing design is another act of design.
Kenya Hara
