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Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.
— George Lois
Sometimes all the 'marketing' insight in the world can't move a client, but the creation of a truly great brand name can become a billion-dollar idea!
— George Lois
I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.
— George Lois
In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
— George Lois
Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.
— George Lois
What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy.
— George Lois
What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.
— George Lois
My concern has always been with creating images that catch people's eyes, penetrate their minds, warm their hearts and cause them to act.
— George Lois
A cautious creative is an oxymoron.
— George Lois
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
— George Lois
If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.
— George Lois
Never, ever, work for bad people
— George Lois
It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
— George Lois
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
— George Lois
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.
— George Lois
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
— George Lois
To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification — George Lois
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification — George Lois
Only mediocre ideas can be tested.
— George Lois
From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.
— George Lois
When you think of a brand, you should immediately understand it from the advertising attitude, from the words and visuals.
— George Lois
Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.
— George Lois
The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.
— George Lois
The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.
— George Lois
Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.
— George Lois
There's no such thing as a cautious creative.
— George Lois