Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact. — Michael Bierut
Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner. — Massimo Vignelli
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. — Ben Shneiderman
If geography is prose, maps are iconography. — Lennart Meri
When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point. — John Tukey
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take. — Chip Kidd
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images. — Helen Levitt
I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable. — Massimo Vignelli
The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning. — Katherine McCoy
The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph. — Raymond Loewy
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
This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization. — John Tukey
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. — Christopher Alexander
Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. — Sol LeWitt
Short Graphic Quotes
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi
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
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger
Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. — Neville Brody
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography. — Herb Lubalin
If you can design one thing, you can design everything. — Massimo Vignelli
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. — Shepard Fairey
I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent. — Saul Bass
Graphic Image Quotes
I Love Graphics Quotes
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff — Brad Bird
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
One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios. — Tilda Swinton
I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. — Walter Hill
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world. — Matthea Harvey
I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre. — Matthea Harvey
I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - God Loves, Man Kills, which is a brilliant story. — Josh Helman
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing. — Barbra Streisand
I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time. — Robin Williams
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. — David Coverdale
Graphic Design Quotes
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
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
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
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique. — Wolfgang Weingart
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
What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it? — Wolfgang Weingart
I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction. — April Greiman
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
Graphic Design Inspiration Quotes
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously. — Wim Crouwel
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design. — Stefan Sagmeister
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
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari
They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. — Gerald Massey
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
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. — Robert L. Peters
Graphic Artist Quotes
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli
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
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 the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order — Victor Papanek
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is. — Leo Frankowski
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
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 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
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future. — Paola Antonelli
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas. — Chip Kidd
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. — Jim Jarmusch
I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is – someone who designs projects to make people happy. That’s his purpose. — Toru Iwatani
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
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans. — Jerry Pinkney
Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas. — Jessica Helfand
Graphic Novels Quotes
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. — Darren Aronofsky
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. — Matthew Vaughn
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. — Ted Rall
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. — Ted Rall
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. — Ted Rall
Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun. — Billy Campbell
The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels. — Janet Evanovich
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. — Dave Gibbons
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. — Jon Scieszka
As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation. — Robin Furth
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
No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it. — Michael Bierut
For after all, a poster does more than simply
supply information on the goods it advertises;
it also reveals a society’s state of mind — Armin Hofmann
Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women. — Alexander McQueen
Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company. — Saul Bass
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. — Emil Ruder
To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. — Emil Ruder
I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies. — Hiroshi Yamauchi
Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't like them. — Wolfgang Weingart
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is. — Chip Kidd
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