The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd. Milton Glaser More Quotes by Milton Glaser More Quotes From Milton Glaser Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. Milton Glaser computerdesigncooking Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt. Milton Glaser designdoubtmind To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. Milton Glaser designmastersmean Less isn't more; just enough is more. Milton Glaser inspirationenoughleadership What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it. Milton Glaser designartthinking 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. Milton Glaser cuttingcolorjobs 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. Milton Glaser persistenceindependentreal Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do. Milton Glaser doctorsdesigndrug In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. Milton Glaser shadowtechnologyself I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies. Milton Glaser exceptnothinghobbieswork If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy. Milton Glaser greataggressivedemocracycommunity 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. Milton Glaser newgoodtalkingamerica I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters. Milton Glaser beenpostersobjectsdone I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer. Milton Glaser directorinteriorbookart 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. Milton Glaser my-lifeforgettryinglife 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. Milton Glaser endbeginningyoulife Color is so intuitive. Milton Glaser intuitivecolor
