Inspirational Graphic Design Quotes - Page 2

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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Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

Chip Kidd

Falling In Love, Jobs, Technology

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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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Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores.

Chip Kidd

Falling In Love, Ideas, Design

Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

Inspirational, Photography, Art

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But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

Marian Bantjes

Successful, Design, Deals

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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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Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Success, Business, Starting Up

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

Robert L. Peters

Inspiring, Art, 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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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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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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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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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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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Nolan Bushnell

Motivational, Death, Inspiration

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I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

Bob Gill

Jobs, Design, Dumb

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

Massimo Vignelli

Creativity, Fighting, Design

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