Graphic design Quotes · Page 3

“Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

— George Santayana

What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about…

— Tibor Kalman

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

— Henrik Fisker

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.…

— David Coverdale

Graphic design is a hobby that I started with back in 2010-2011, which I am still doing today. And because of that,…

— Alan Walker

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

— Edward Tufte

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

— Francis Crick

“Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make…

— Michael Bierut

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design…

— Ryan McGinley

I went to work at political consulting firms, graphic design and communications firms and ultimately, magazines. Today, my career is in the…

— Lewis Schiff

If you do it right, it will last forever.

— Massimo Vignelli

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting…

— George Orwell

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

— Massimo Vignelli

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

— Saul Bass

A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the…

— Fernando Pessoa

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for…

— Colleen Haskell

3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).

— Lester Beall

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

— Jon Franklin

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

— Stefan Sagmeister

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

— Emil Ruder

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

— Jim Jarmusch

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job…

— Bob Gill

In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of…

— DJ Spooky