Graphic Artist Quotes - Page 2

• The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

  Zuzana Licko

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reading

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• Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Design, Made

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• Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

  Ellen Lupton

  Technology, Design, Spacing

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.91, Chronicle Books

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• Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

  Jan Tschichold

  Art, Perfect, Design

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• A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

  Leo Frankowski

  Beautiful, Simple, Talking

  Leo Frankowski (2004). “Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior”, p.155, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beautiful, Lunch, Design

  "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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

  Henrik Fisker

  Art, Design, Branding

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• Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

  Raymond Loewy

  Design, Black, Experience

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• Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

  Victor Papanek

  Meaningful, Order, Design

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• Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Film Music, Bodies Of Water

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination   Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Imagination, Fuel

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

  Milton Glaser

  Real, Independent, Persistence

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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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• Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Design, Easy, Difficult

  Samuel Johnson (1803). “The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]”, p.71

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• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

  Louis Nizer

  Inspirational, Heart, Artist

  "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.

  Marty Neumeier

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Artist, Design, Synthesis

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.116, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

  Stanley Morison

  Moving, Successful, Design

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• Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

  Jon Franklin

  Inspiring, Simplicity, Design

  Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet

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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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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

  John Maeda

  Confused, Skills, Design

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