Wim Crouwel Quotes

#1. You're always a child of your time,
and you cannot step out of that.

Wim Crouwel

#2. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.

Wim Crouwel

#3. How, then, should we educate our young? First, treat them as spirits. They are spirits, entering a physical body. That is not an easy thing for a spirit to do; not an

Neale Donald Walsch

#4. After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

Nicolas Bouvier

#5. Living with computers gives funny ideas.

Wim Crouwel

#6. Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

Freida Pinto

#7. Neutrality has its own aesthetics.

Wim Crouwel

#8. There are only perches within society, and we can elevate our sights by considering how things might look from those of others.

Yuval Levin

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

Wim Crouwel

#10. The bike crunches along the gravel path, weaving around the potholes that could present danger to someone who didn't know the road like the back of their hand.

Jane Green

#11. Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty but you can't resist charm.

Audrey Tautou

#12. 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

#13. If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#14. Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste.

Tristram Stuart

#15. The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.

Wim Crouwel

#16. Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding
something personal.

Wim Crouwel

#17. I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

Mr. T

#18. I am, a shadow
that grows longer as the sun
moves, drawn out
on a thread of wonder.
If I bear burdens
they begin to be remembered
as gifts, goods, a basket
of bread that hurts
my shoulders but closes me
in fragrance. I can
eat as I go.
("Stepping Westward")

Denise Levertov