Massimo Vignelli

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but…

— Massimo Vignelli

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

— Massimo Vignelli

I'm not a designer, I'm a sifter. I can sift everything, all the time. My sift level lines keep shaking all the…

— Massimo Vignelli

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

— Massimo Vignelli

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have…

— Massimo Vignelli

You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the…

— Massimo Vignelli

I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was…

— Massimo Vignelli

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

— Massimo Vignelli

One life is too short for doing everything.

— Massimo Vignelli

It’s not important to develop your own style but your own approach.

— Massimo Vignelli

If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the…

— Massimo Vignelli

If you do it right, it will last forever.

— Massimo Vignelli

In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.

— Massimo Vignelli

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

— Massimo Vignelli

I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't…

— Massimo Vignelli

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

— Massimo Vignelli

Any color works if you push it to the extreme.

— Massimo Vignelli

It is better to starve than get a bad client.

— Massimo Vignelli

If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others,…

— Massimo Vignelli

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

— Massimo Vignelli

Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.

— Massimo Vignelli

Men's clothing hasn't changed in 200 years, maybe a lapel gets a little wider or a tie gets narrower from time to…

— Massimo Vignelli

The first thing you need to make clear to a client is that you aren't there to answer his wants but to…

— Massimo Vignelli

Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale,…

— Massimo Vignelli

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

— Massimo Vignelli