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Design Quotes by Chip Kidd
- Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or…
- Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
- Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
- Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what…
- Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.
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- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks