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Graphic Designer Inspirational Quotes (1757)

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Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.
Paul Rand
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Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
Pablo Picasso
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I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.
Stefan Sagmeister
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An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.
Charles M. Blow
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You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
Quentin Crisp
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I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
Ellen Lupton
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When I haven't any blue I use red.
Pablo Picasso
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In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure or color can create a new painting and it doesn't really matter if a subject is revisited by an artist repeatedly. With enough time in between paintings, an artist can always bring to it something new.
Guity Novin
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The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's not about whether they like it or don't it's just not very important to them.
Abbas Kiarostami
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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
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Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.
Tibor Kalman
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There's something very strange and wrong-seeming about drawing realistic eyeballs in comics, at least in the mode of comics where action is carried more by the movement of the characters rather than where narration links disparately framed selected images.
Chris Ware
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I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.
Stanley Donwood
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The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.
Freddie Mercury
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I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.
Bruno Monguzzi
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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
Pablo Picasso
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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Pablo Picasso
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Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.
Michael Vanderbyl
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We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Data can actually make us more human.
Aaron Koblin
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I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.
Jessica Hische
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Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions.
Shepard Fairey
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