Graphic design Quotes

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

— Henrik Fisker

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

— Saint Augustine

Humor is all about timing.

— Steven Heller

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

— Anne Taintor

“If you can't make it good, make it big.”

— Michael Rowley

If you jump, you best jump far.

— Tori Amos

You cannot not communicate.

— Paul Watzlawick

If you do it right, it will last forever.

— Massimo Vignelli

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

— Rajneesh

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

— Ellen Lupton

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

— Wim Crouwel

The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

— Italo Calvino

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

— Ellen Lupton

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

— David Carson

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

— Victor Papanek

Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders.

— Patrick Awuah, Jr

Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off…

— Wolfgang Weingart

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

For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state…

— Armin Hofmann

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't…

— Karrueche Tran

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as…

— Marian Bantjes

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

— Stefan Sagmeister

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

— Saul Bass

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

— Manly Hall

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By…

— Allen Ginsberg

When I was working at the game company, I wasn't just doing graphic design, I was doing the entire product management, so…

— Makoto Shinkai

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For…

— Massimo Vignelli

“I recognized Rebecca immediately, though it is doubtful whether I registered on her radar. We had a graphic design class together. I…

— Jarod Kintz

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

— DJ Spooky

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at…

— Graeme Base

Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers…

— Jeff Fisher

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or…

— John Van Hamersveld

“6. Graphic design skills • Look at the models, drawings and sketches of a proposed scheme to understand the placement of graphics.…

— Philip Hughes

The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in…

— Christopher Alexander

I love the idea of engaging the object, whether it be architecture or a piece of good graphic design, or a good…

— Michael C. McMillen

The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints…

— Alfie Kohn

Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire, that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that…

— Randy Pausch

“However, [Edmund G. Gress] wrote, " we must not simplify to such an extent that life and movement are gone. That is…

— Steven Heller

Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed…

— Jessica Abel

“Apple’s brand czar, Hiroki Asai, is a quiet executive almost completely unknown to the general public. He studied printed design at California…

— Adam Lashinsky