My own ambition is to write a song that sounds like I stole it---like 'I' didn't write it, but it has always been there. To get the 'I' out of the song is the ultimate compositional coup, whether in music or design. Having a non style is more slippery amusing and surprising to one nice recognizable look. It's a way of staying half-awake, or noticing things, enjoying things and learning to love things---especially the vernacular and banal things that have been relegated to the garbage heap of design.
From Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist, 1998
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i have found learning to love things to be highly underrated. there are so many things i love today that i was totally against in the beginning.
but maybe this is not so much learning to love as putting down the haterade.
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