Motivation and inspiration. They are the two most important things for any graphic designers. No matter how tough the graphic designers are, sometimes they need a little motivation and inspiration, which may come handy. Today, The Website Marketing Group a nice collection of sixty quotes from designers, artists and other people with their views on design. Check them out:
1. Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs
– Frank Chimero
2. Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead
– Marty Neumier
3. Practice safe design: Use a concept
– Petrula Vrontikis
4. I love the comment, “You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears
– Andrew Lewis
5. It’s art if can’t be explained. It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation. It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation
– Wouter Stokkel
6. Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist after you grow up
– Pablo Picasso
7. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity
– John Carmack
8. Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended
– Raymond Loewy
9. In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design
-Otl Aicher
10. Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures
– Jeffrey Veen
11. Design from the spine and you’ll be fine
– Carl Heaton
12. Everything is designed. Few things are designed well
– Brian Reed
13. The client may be king but he’s not the art director
– Von R. Glitschka
14. Graphic designers are idea embalmers. loving undertakers preserving bits of data like so many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box
– Paul Saffo
15. To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that’s worth remembering
– Thomas Manss
16. Graphic designers are, by and large selfish and spoiled. They stubbornly control and individually design things that are generally smaller than them, perfecting to a level appreciated only by people like them. They don’t share and play well with others
– Wayne Hunt
17. A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures
– Ben Schneiderman
18. Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs
– Frank Chimero
19. Remember it takes a lot of shit, to create a beautiful flower
– Jacob Cass
20. Design is a good idea
– Emigre
21. If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life
– Justin Durban
22. We aren’t designing photocopies of web pages, we’re designing web pages
– Andy Clarke
23. A computer without Photoshop is like a dog with no legs. Sure is fun, but you can’t really do anything with it
– Benjamin Cavanagh
24. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools
– Douglas Adams
25. Everyone is an artist
– Joseph Beuys
26. Colour does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it
– Pierre Bonnard
27. Marketing without design is lifeless, and design without marketing is mute
– Von R. Glitschka
28. Without good design it is easy to miss the point
– Bjarni Wark
29. Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking
– Chris Pullman
30. The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness
– Massimo Vignelli
31. In the design process, my gut instinct is my best critic. I just wished I would always listen to it!
– Bryan Tamayo
32. Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end
– Colin Wright
33. Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption
– Peter Saville
34. Design is creativity with strategy
– Rob Curedale
35. Stop looking at yourself as a designer and start thinking of yourself as a deliverer of ideas
– Stle Melvr
36. No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist
– Salvador Dali
37. Good ideas turn into good designs fairly quickly. If you catch yourself fiddling too much with colors, borders and treatments to bring a design together, chances are the problem lies somewhere deeper
– Ryan Singer
38. We can’t just design an item that looks great. We also have to anticipate how it is boxed up, distributed, and shipped, as well as whether or not a seventeen-year-old kid with a summer job can stock it on the store shelf without ruining it
– Robin Perkins
39. Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus
– David Hockney
40. Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere
– Mieke Gerritzen
41. The difference between a Designer and Developer when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it
– Scott Hanselman
42. People ignore design that ignores people
– Frank Chimero
43. Never re-invent the wheel, unless you’re sure the client needn’t go anywhere
– Russell Bishop
44. Making good design is easy. It’s polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time
– Stefan G. Bucher
45. You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt… or in front of a piece of graphic design
– Stefan Sagmeister
46. Whether we like it or not, our legacy as designers is ugly. We’re largely responsible for fueling a culture of consumption
– Eric Karjalouto
47. Graphic designers find themselves in a role of visual dishwashers for the information Architects’ chefs
– Gunnar Swanson
48. My rates are as follow: $50 per hour, $75 per hour if you watch, $100 per hour if you help
– Santiago Borray
49. Design is like a mom, nobody notices when she’s around, but everybody misses her when she’s not
– Santiago Borray
50. A designer who gives her art away, makes no pay, A designer who keeps her art to herself, makes no friends
– Amber Seree Allen
51. Good design means never having to say “Click Here.”
– Shawn Leslie
52. Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it’s good practice for dating
– Heather Phillips
53. Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower
– Michael Langham
54. Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration
– Aaron Russell
55. Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this”
– David Craib
56. Design is intelligence made visible
– Alina Wheeler
57. Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood
– Fabien Barral
58. You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously
– Wim Crouwal
59. Maths is easy; design is hard
– Jeffrey Veen
60. Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does
– David Carsong