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Graphic Designer Inspirational Quotes (1759)

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I am the character you are not supposed to like.
Alan Rickman
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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
Alan Rickman
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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
Alan Rickman
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Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
Edward Tufte
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Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
Maurice Sendak
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The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
John Maeda
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Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.
Wim Crouwel
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You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
Wim Crouwel
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You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.
Wim Crouwel
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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
Maurice Sendak
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For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
Wolfgang Weingart
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Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.
Wolfgang Weingart
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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
Maurice Sendak
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You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.
Paula Scher
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I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.
Michael Bierut
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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
Edward Tufte
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I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
Pablo Picasso
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[I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.
Yugo Nakamura
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Anyone who promises you something that you have not earned is seeking to enslave you.
James Wasserman
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I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
Pablo Picasso
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.
Quentin Crisp
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Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.
Stefan Sagmeister
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You've noticed that same joke told by two different people, once works, and the other time doesn't, simply because how the person edits it. The silences, the pauses, what they neglect, what they emphasize - all of this matters.
Abbas Kiarostami
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I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and tell me a story, and the way they choose it and tell it, for me, the best criteria for whether they are right for making films. There's nothing more important than being able to tell your story orally.
Abbas Kiarostami
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