Milton Glaser Quotes

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• Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
• In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
• What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being…
• Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
• Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do…
• The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.
• The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre…
• The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and…
• To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
• Less isn't more; just enough is more.
• I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.
• I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.
• Color is so intuitive.
• The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire and persistence.

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