Art Quote by Chip Kidd Download Open image “Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.” — Chip Kidd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Design Giving Graphic Graphic design Ideas Trying
People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art. — Kathleen Kennedy Copy Share Image
Illustration is commercial. It's work that we produce, and I think what you can do is you can draw from the pool of art,… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it's always been that way because it is a business. — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities. — Holland Cotter Copy Share Image
My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that's good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial work. But… — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic. — No I.D Copy Share Image
“As creators and consumers they fill the field of pop culture today, which is an economic enterprise and only by accident occasionally has something… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness -… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“We are the Western World. We read, see, think. Left. To. Right. We can't help it. ..The problem with Top to Bottom is that… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“He was the most astonishing contradiction of components I’d ever encountered. Shy yet fiercely communicative when putting an idea into your head. Vocally astringent… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
