I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable. — Massimo Vignelli
To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering. — Thomas Manss
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. — Harry Bertoia
No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it. — Michael Bierut
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take. — Chip Kidd
Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully. — Roger Martin
Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness. — Chuck Green
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design. — Paula Scher
Good design is honest. — Dieter Rams
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. — Barbara Januszkiewicz
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. — April Greiman
Graphic Design Inspiration Image Quotes
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Design Inspiration Quotes
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. — Massimo Vignelli
Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. — Neville Brody
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits! — Paula White
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto
If you can design one thing, you can design everything. — Massimo Vignelli
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. — Coco Chanel
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. — Shepard Fairey
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys
Graphic Design Quotes
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi
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
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of responsibility in society. We take invisible ideas and make them tangible. That's our job. — Neville Brody
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography. — Herb Lubalin
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry. — Jan Tschichold
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. — El Lissitzky
I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent. — Saul Bass
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique. — Wolfgang Weingart
Finding Inspiration Quotes
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. — Nikola Tesla
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party. — Ron White
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security. — Kathryn Kuhlman
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything. — Bill Russell
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? — Marcus Aurelius
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
Inspirational Design Quotes
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky
What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it? — Wolfgang Weingart
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. — Carlos Santana
There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material. — Salvatore Ferragamo
The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette. — Giambattista Valli
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
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. — Albert Einstein
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. — Allen Ginsberg
I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence. — Yves Saint Laurent
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Ideas And Inspiration Quotes
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old — Peter Drucker
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs
Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork. — Yohji Yamamoto
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. — Edward Elgar
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. — Giuseppe Mazzini
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework. — Jim Rohn
Graphic Artist Quotes
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people. — El Lissitzky
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously. — Wim Crouwel
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. — Raymond Loewy
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures. — Jeffrey Veen
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. — James Whistler
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. — Anthony Bourdain
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future. — Robert L. Peters
Design And Art Quotes
The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong. — Helio Gracie
For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting. — Iris van Herpen
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). — Robert Hooke
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design. — Stefan Sagmeister
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. — Bruno Munari
Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand. — Paula Scher
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia
Graphic Art Quotes
The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive. — Vladimir Lenin
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. — Wassily Kandinsky
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. — John Wesley Powell
Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom. — Paula Rego
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. — Robert L. Peters
If design isn't profitable, then it's art. — Henrik Fisker
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
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
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future. — Paola Antonelli
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. — Jim Jarmusch
Looking For Inspiration Quotes
We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information. — Sayings
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. — Confucius
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. — Eckhart Tolle
When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop. — Yasmin Mogahed
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Breault
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood. — Yasmin Mogahed
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Inspire Creativity Quotes
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent. — Benjamin Bloom
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. — Neil Gaiman
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. — M. Scott Peck
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
If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients. — Michael Bierut
They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. — Gerald Massey
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. — Jonathan Ive
Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop. — Jeffrey Zeldman
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous. — Ralph Caplan
Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration. — Jessica Walsh
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order — Victor Papanek
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
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores. — Chip Kidd
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success. — Gerry Spence
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
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
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. — Howard Aiken
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. — Steve Jobs
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking. — Ellen Lupton
Design is where science and art break even. — Robin Mathews
Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication. — Peter Bilak
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box. — Paul Saffo
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything. — Tom Peters
If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day. — Rudy Gutierrez
I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science. — Dean Wareham
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