1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Syd Mead

Syd Mead Quotes

Sydney Jay Mead, commonly Syd Mead , is an American industrial designer and neofuturistic concept artist, widely known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. Mead once said, "I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule.'"Mead's work has received wide note, and, in 2017, Curbed called Mead "the artist who illustrates the future".

✵ 18. July 1933 – 30. December 2019
Syd Mead photo
Syd Mead: 1   quote 0   likes

Syd Mead Quotes

“The fashionable ideology that "artificial" lacks the inherent goodness of "natural" is an appealing, but hopelessly simplistic notion of the intellectually chic. Artifice is the result of a deliberate intent to make. Nature also "makes" things, using a set of basic building blocks common throughout the universe. Exchanging infinite time for deliberate design, nature has ingeniously built plants, planets, galaxies and unimaginable constructs which seem to structure the universe itself. What we call "natural" is simply the result of whatever set of rules nature has followed in fashioning our observable reality. On planet Earth, nature has manipulated the common elements to fashion everything from bacteria to the molten core of the planet. Discoveries in the "nano" technologies of bio, molecular, and micro engineering will re-edit the nomenclature of "natural" versus "unnatural", blurring if not erasing the line of distinction between "machine" and "organism", "natural" and "unnatural", "God-given" and "man-made."”

Syd Mead

Future Concepts: The World of Syd Mead, p.15, Car Styling Magazine 088, May 1992

God , Fashion , Nature , Reality

Similar authors

Andy Warhol photo
Andy Warhol 133
American artist
Juan Ramón Jimenéz photo
Juan Ramón Jimenéz 18
Spanish poet
Salvador Dalí photo
Salvador Dalí 117
Spanish artist
Khalil Gibran photo
Khalil Gibran 111
Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
Bob Dylan photo
Bob Dylan 523
American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Bruce Lee photo
Bruce Lee 193
Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f…
Norman Vincent Peale photo
Norman Vincent Peale 63
American writer
Robert T. Kiyosaki photo
Robert T. Kiyosaki 151
American finance author , investor
Barbra Streisand photo
Barbra Streisand 5
American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and direct…
Kurt Cobain photo
Kurt Cobain 158
American musician and artist