Milton Glaser Quotes

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.

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

You must embrace failure

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

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

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

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

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

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.

Color is so intuitive.

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

Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

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