Graphic Design Inspiration Quotes

Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.

Peter Bilak

Communication, Design, Graphic

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You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

Wim Crouwel

Work, Technology, Design

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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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Design is where science and art break even.

Robin Mathews

Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

Death, Art, Simple

"Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Life, Success

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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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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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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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Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Erik Adigard

Philosophy, Design, Crafts

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

David Carson

Rocks, Rock And Roll, Design

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You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Stefan Sagmeister

Art, Design, Pieces

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

Robert L. Peters

Inspiring, Art, 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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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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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Bruno Munari

Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Pablo Picasso

Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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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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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Paul Rand

Design, Intuition, Gestalt

"A designer's art". Book by Paul Rand, 1968.

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Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

Paul Saffo

Butterfly, Jewels, Data

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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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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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