- Daniel Boorstin: An image ... is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual,
institution, corporation, product or service.
- David Ogilvy: What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
- Steve Kopcha: Good ads sell stuff.
- Albert Camus: Those who write clearly have readers. Those who write obscurely have
commentators.
- George Santayana: Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy,
abnormality, hobbies and humors.
- Bob Dylan: You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.
- John Updike: Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or
better.
- Leo Burnett: When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one. But you won't come up
with a handful of mud either.
- Pablo Picasso: Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows
up.
- Paul Rand: Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest
expectations.
- Mark Twain: The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read
them.
- Leo Burnett: The secret of all effective advertising is ... one of putting familiar words and
pictures into new relationships.
- Jeffrey Zeldman: Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's
decoration.
- Saul Bass: Design is thinking made visual.
- Ellen Lupton: Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
- Chris Pullman: The way something looks is the last thing we figure out.
- Ernest Hemmingway: For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I
have good luck and write better than I can.
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