平面設計師Ryan McArthur 熱衷將名人名言設計成極簡抽象派的海報,並用圖案詮釋金句的內涵。這些至理名言大多來自Rumi、Oscar Wilde和 Albert Einstein這些令人尊敬的著名人物。
Ryan McArthur 的作品簡單優雅,大多為單色的設計,樸素中不失創意,傳達出深刻的內涵,讓人獲益匪淺。
天才是99%的汗水加1%的靈感(Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration)。——托馬斯·愛迪生(Thomas Edison)
你不是滄海一粟,你是整個海洋的一部分(You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop)。——羅米(Rumi)
做你自己,因為別人都有人做了(Be yourself,everyone else is already taken)。——奧斯卡·王爾德(Oscar Wilde)
如果用水填滿你的墨水瓶,你將永遠寫不出智慧之言(If with water you fill up your glasses, You’ll never write anything wise)。——托馬斯·摩爾(Thomas Moore)(感謝一葉障目同學指正)
藝術不是模仿,而是幻想(Art is not imitation, but illusion)。
——查爾斯·裡德(Charles Reade)
適度是極其致命的事情,過度帶來的成功是無可比擬的(Moderation is a fatal thing.Nothing succeeds like excess)。——奧斯卡·王爾德(Oscar Wilde)
人生就像騎行,要想保持平衡就得不斷向前。(Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.)——阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦(Albert Einstein)
生活是條沉船,但我們不要忘了在救生艇上高歌(Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats)。——伏爾泰(Voltaire)
大自然從不會一下子就把所有東西都給你(Nature never gives everything at once)。——塞繆爾·約翰遜 (Samuel Johnson)
只要你下定決心,宇宙萬物都會來幫助你(Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen)——拉爾夫·沃爾多·愛默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
美與美相互吸引(The beautiful attracts the beautiful)——利·亨特(Leigh Hunt)
我們都生活在陰溝裡,但仍有人仰望星空(We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars)——奧斯卡·王爾德(Oscar Wilde)
在某些人心裡,好像確有一種和其他本能同樣純潔賢貞的、真正的獸性本能,具有這種本能的人會製造同情和惡感。(All animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time)——維克多·雨果(Victor Hugo)
沉浸於美麗的心情,如天空中自由飛翔的鳥兒。(It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song.)——William Simms
藝術必須是充滿自然表現力的,而不是笨拙的去描述。(Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.)——William Hazlitt
通往我既定目標的路上已經鋪好了鐵軌, 我的靈魂將咬著這條鐵軌疾馳而去。(The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.)——Herman Melville
我們忙碌,好奇,渴望飛翔,沉醉在你我的目標中。( BUSY, curious, thirsty fly! Drink with me and drink as I.)——William Oldys
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