Milton Glaser Quotes & Sayings

#1. Color is so intuitive.

#2. You must embrace failure

#3. All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.

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#4. I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

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#5. We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

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

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#7. The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

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#8. The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

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#9. In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

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#10. I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

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#11. I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

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#12. Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

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#13. If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be...I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around - that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.

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#14. The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

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#15. We're always looking, but we never really see.

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#16. We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

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#17. You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.

Milton Glaser