Graphic Quotes

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

You have to be interested in culture to design for it.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

You cannot not communicate.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

Grid systems in graphic design

I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.

HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it.

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer.

Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders.

For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.