Alvin Lustig quotes

Alvin Lustig quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.”
-- Alvin Lustig

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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

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“I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.”
-- Alvin Lustig

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“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”
“Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”
“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
“If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.”
“Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.”
“Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.”
“I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.”
“My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.”
“I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.”

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