Graphic Design Quotes - Page 7

• In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

  Howard Rheingold

  Mean, Thinking, Design

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• An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.

  Germano Facetti

  Design, Understanding, Elements

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• In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the artist. It defines the basic properties and laws governing the arts and suggests objective criteria for art criticism.

  Jacques Bertin

  Art, Mean, Law

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• I h a v e a l l t h a t I r e q u e s t e d and I do not want what I haven`t got. I have learned this from my mother ; see how happy she has made me. I will take this road much further though I know not where it takes me.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Mother, Design, Want

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• If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

  Jef Raskin

  Creativity, Design, Fields

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• As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

  Alvin Lustig

  Mistake, Learning, Acceptance

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• Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Bodies Of Water, Film Music

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• The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

  Paul Rand

  Technology, Design, Reassuring

  Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.

  J. J. Abrams

  Technology, White, Imagination

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• Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Thinking, Interesting, Perspective

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• I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

  James Turrell

  Fire, Design, Atmosphere

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

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• What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer) when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Beautiful, Math, Simple

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• Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Design, Leader, Graphic

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• We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Design, Possibility

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• The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.

  Italo Calvino

  Beautiful, Thinking, Order

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• We`re not here for a long time, we`re here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.

  Mike Ness

  Tomorrow May Never Come, Sky, Long

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• Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating it to a secondary role, or that of an add on.

  John A. Hiigli

  Art, Design, Parent

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• I don`t think this has been fully understood by the United States... If you look at India, China and Russia, they all have strong education heritages. Even if you discount 90 percent of the people there as uneducated farmers, you still end up with about 300 million people who are educated. That`s bigger than the U.S. work force.

  Craig R. Barrett

  Strong, Thinking, Russia

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• If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. You are only removing the talking and whispering from the system. I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

  Bruno Monguzzi

  Communication, Talking, Silence

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• For one thing, I don`t teach graphic design ; I teach people to find their own strengths. Second, I don`t hold back anything for myself. I share everything I know. I get back much more than I receive.

  Morteza Momayez

  People, Design, Share

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• Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Design, Graphic, Right Now

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.10, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• If you jump, you best jump far.

  Tori Amos

  Design, Graphic, Ifs

  Song: Leather, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

  Biz Stone

  Creativity, Perfect, Design

  "Master of 'Biz' Returns to School" by Melissa Korn and Amir Efrati, The wall Street Journal, September 1, 2011.

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• I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

  Colleen Haskell

  Children, Book, Design

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