“Visual communication is universal and international; it knows no limits of tongue, vocabulary, or grammar, and it can be perceived by the illiterate as well as by the literate…[The visual arts, as] the optimum forms of the language of vision, are, therefore, an invaluable educational medium,” György Kepes, Language of Vision, 1944
“To design is to devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred,” Herbert Simon, economist and political scientist
“I think of my abstract mark-making as a type of sign lexicon, signifier, or language for characters that hold identity and have social agency.” Julie Mehretu, artist
“Pictures of nothing.” Kirk Varnedoe, art historian
Foundations of Art, Design, + Digital Culture 