Inspirational Graphic Design Quotes - Page 2

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

Victor Papanek

Meaningful, Order, Design

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Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

Ralph Caplan

Thinking, Design, Hard

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I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Saul Bass

Beautiful, Ugly Things, Design

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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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Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

Neville Brody

Technology, Design, Digital

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

Pierre Bonnard

Death, Color, Design

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Design is where science and art break even.

Robin Mathews

Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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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 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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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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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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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Love, Inspirational, Life

Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Nolan Bushnell

Motivational, Death, Inspiration

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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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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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If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Red Adair

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

Massimo Vignelli

Creativity, Fighting, 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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