Spiekermann Quotes

#1. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design." - Erik Spiekermann, graphic designer When

Marc Stickdorn

#2. I love to be a graphic designer, but could we get rid of clients somehow please?

Erik Spiekermann

#3. Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

Erik Spiekermann

#4. To build is to be robbed.

Samuel Johnson

#5. There's nothing I want. There's nothing I can't do. I don't care about anything. No matter what, I am an imposter. An actor in my own life.

Michelle Hodkin

#6. Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

Jodi Picoult

#7. He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.

Erik Spiekermann

#9. You are what you are seen to be.

Erik Spiekermann

#10. It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

#11. The materials shape your idea.

Erik Spiekermann

#12. The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

Joseph Rotblat

#13. You might be a redneck if there are four or more cars up on blocks in the front yard.

Jeff Foxworthy

#14. May your past be a pleasant memory, Your future filled with delight and mystery, Your now a glorious moment, That fills your life with deep contentment.

Kate Morton

#15. Bonnie and her mum are both members of Amnesty International," said Abigail.
"Of course they are," murmured Madeline. This must be how Jennifer Aniston feels, thought Madeline, whenever she hears about Angelina and Brad adopting another orphan or two.

Liane Moriarty

#16. They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type.

Erik Spiekermann

#17. The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Albert J. Nock

#18. Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

Erik Spiekermann

#19. The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

Gilles Deleuze

#20. Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

Erik Spiekermann

#21. When people in other parts of the world hear the term "food fast," they envision a time of spiritual and physical cleansing. I hear "food fast" and I envision a drive-thru.

Jim Gaffigan

#22. All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.

Philip James Bailey

#23. I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

Erik Spiekermann

#24. As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Erik Spiekermann