"Graphic design is building systems." - Michael Stinson

"Much like music, great art is also found in the spaces between your graphic elements." - William Childs

"When typography is on point, words become images." - Shawn Lukas

"A portfolio as pretty as pictures is nothing but a tip of the iceberg, the real treasure underlies the ocean." - Shawn Lukas

"If you spend an hour now, you can save five later." - Rami Hassan

"A good design solves a problem. A bad design creates many." - Samadara Ginige

"Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood." - Anthony Liccione

"I don’t think of myself as an artist. I know some designers consider themselves such, but I can’t. This is not to say that I don’t hope that our work has artistic merit. Anyway, I never know how someone could proclaim himself or herself to be an ‘artist’; I think it should be a designation best left for others to bestow, much like ‘genius’ and ‘asshole’." - Alexander Isley

"Letterspacing creates speedbumps for the reader." - Michael Stinson

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design." - Charles Eames

"How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood." - Andrew Grove

"Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions." - Nicholas Negroponte

"The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to make the invisible visible." - Hillman Curtis

"Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style." - Massimo Vignelli

"Those who don’t build must burn." - Ray Bradbury

"If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design." - Ralf Speth

"You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking." - George Nelson

"Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem." - John Maeda

"The time it takes to make a decision increases as the number of alternatives increases." - William Edmund Hick

"All the Photoshop filters in the world won’t save a weak design." - William Childs

"Work hard and be nice to people. No one is born with the ability, and no one owes you anything. If you want to do something, start small and build it up. Then keep doing it!" - Jon Hicks

"The great thing about personal work is that it can shape your commercial work. Clients see what you create for yourself and that can be the starting point for a new project, which closes the cap between the work you love making and the work you get paid for." - Gemma O’Brien

"Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’." - Achille Castiglioni

"Don’t you miss doing creative stuff, as an engineer? Don’t you miss the creativity of the art world? You can say: I’m working on an infinite canvas capable of any size and shape, that’s already glowing every color possible into the eyes of just about everyone on the planet. And I get to decide the kind of experience, feeling, and emotion they are going to have. How is that not creative?" - Natalya Shelburne

"Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure—to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten." - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"Less is more and more is more. It’s the middle that’s not a good place." - Paula Scher

"Less is more and more is more. It’s the middle that’s not a good place." - Paula Scher

"Less is more and more is more. It’s the middle that’s not a good place." - Paula Scher

"Less is more and more is more. It’s the middle that’s not a good place." - Paula Scher

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack " - George Patton