Graphic Art Quotes:

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

topic: Philosophy, Design, Crafts, Software Design, Inspirational Design

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

- George Santayana

topic: Design, Individuality, Hobbies, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

- Jeffrey Veen

topic: Ideas, Design, Normalcy, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

topic: Fashion, Fighting, Doctors, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Design

Design is where science and art break even.

- Robin Mathews

topic: Art, Design, Break, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Design

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

- Paul Rand

topic: Art, Simple, Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Inspiring Design

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Business, Memorable, Veneer, Inspiring Business

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

- Hans Hofmann

source: 1967 Search for the Real.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Mean, Software Design, Life And Living

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

- Scott Adams

source: 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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

- Nolan Bushnell

topic: Motivational, Death, Inspiration, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Graphic Design

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

- Henrik Fisker

topic: Art, Design, Inspirational Design, Best Design, Design And Art

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

- Adrian Frutiger

source: "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

topic: Beautiful, Lunch, Design, Good Design, Design And Art

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

- Paola Antonelli

topic: Design, May, Designer, Graphic Art, Graphic Artist

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

topic: Soul, Originality, Speak, Film Music, Inspiration And Art

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

- John Maeda

topic: Confused, Skills, Design, Digital Age, Digital Tools

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fake People, Software Design, Inspirational Design

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dream, Book, Inspiration, Film Music, Inspiration And Art

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

- Jim Jarmusch

topic: Inspiration, Imagination, Fuel, Film Music, Inspiration And Art

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

- David Hockney

topic: Art, Moving, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

- Milton Glaser

topic: Mean, Design, Masters, Inspiring Design, Design And Art

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

topic: Country, Art, Strong, Graphic Art

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

source: John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Art, Illustration, Speech, Graphic, Grand Canyon