"Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an……" — Paul Rand
"Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed."
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28 Quotes by Paul Rand
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Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no…
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative…
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Design is everything. Everything!
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The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a…
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Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select…
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Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the…
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Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or…
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I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism...…
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If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it…
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Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is…
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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
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They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us...
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we…
— Richard Sibbes
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— Arthur Conan Doyle
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As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
— William Shakespeare
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While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became…
— Henry David Thoreau
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