Funny Graphic Design Quotes

• Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Art, Simple, Design

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• Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Creativity, Thinking

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

  Robert L. Peters

  Inspiring, Art, Design

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• The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Creativity, Fighting, Design

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• If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

  Henrik Fisker

  Art, Design, Branding

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• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

  Edwin Land

  Inspiring, Courage, Failure

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

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• The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Motivational, Death, Inspiration

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• You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

  Zig Ziglar

  Confidence, Running, Design

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 16, 2014

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• Design is where science and art break even.

  Robin Mathews

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Graphic Design, Designer

  Massimo Vignelli, Lella Vignelli, Images Publishing (2004). “Design is One”, p.4, Images Publishing

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• Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

  David Carson

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Design

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• A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

  Ben Shneiderman

  Technology, Design, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  Orson Welles

  Fashion, Successful, Unique

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• Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

  George Santayana

  Design, Individuality, Hobbies

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• Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

  Issey Miyake

  Death, Philosophy, Design

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• Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Death, Color, Design

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• The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

  Piet Zwart

  Design, Letters

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• The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Fashion, Fighting, Doctors

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• Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

  David Hockney

  Art, Moving, Design

  1988 In The Guardian, 26 Oct.

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

  Paula Rego

  Art, Design, Can Do

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• Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Technology, Design, Absence

  "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.

  Michael Langham

  Flower, Inspiration, Design

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• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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