Graphic Design Inspiration Quotes:

Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.

- Peter Bilak

topic: Communication, Design, Graphic, Graphic Design Inspiration

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

- Wim Crouwel

topic: Design, Computer, Speed, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

- Pierre Bonnard

topic: Death, Color, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

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

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

topic: Inspiring, Success, Writing, Software Design, Inspirational Design

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

- Bruno Munari

topic: Design, Designer, Aesthetic, Inspirational Graphic Design, Graphic 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 where science and art break even.

- Robin Mathews

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

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

source: "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

topic: Design, Absence, Decoration, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

source: "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

topic: Death, Art, Simple, Inspirational Graphic Design, Good Design

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Success, Education, Inspirational Graphic Design, Taking Risks

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

- Robert L. Peters

topic: Design, Shapes, Culture, 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

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

- David Carson

topic: Rocks, Rock And Roll, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspiring Design

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

- Ellen Lupton

source: Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.91, Chronicle Books

topic: Design, Spacing, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Web Design

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

- Henrik Fisker

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

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Art, Inspiration, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

- Massimo Vignelli

source: Massimo Vignelli (2007). “Vignelli”, p.39, Images Publishing

topic: Discipline, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Best Design

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

source: Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press

topic: Technology, Design, Reassuring, Inspirational Design, Inspiring Design

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

- Edgar Degas

source: "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

topic: Beauty, Dance, Art, Impressionists, Impressionism

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Design, Easy, Difficult, Industrial Design, Graphic Artist

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

- Stefan Sagmeister

topic: Art, Design, Pieces, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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

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

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Creativity, Artist, Design, Copycats, Good Design

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Witty, Creativity, Science, Creative People, Funny Sarcastic

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

- Paul Saffo

topic: Butterfly, Jewels, Data, Graphic Design Inspiration

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

- Paul Rand

source: "A designer's art". Book by Paul Rand, 1968.

topic: Design, Intuition, Doe, Gestalt, Symmetry

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

- George Santayana

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

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

- Orson Welles

topic: Successful, Unique, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person