Milton Glaser Quotes & Sayings

You must embrace failure — Milton Glaser

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

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. — Milton Glaser

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

Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do. — Milton Glaser

Color is so intuitive. — Milton Glaser

If you can sustain your interest in what you're doing, you're an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people's professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment - and that's a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place.
What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it. — Milton Glaser

All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life. — Milton Glaser

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

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. — Milton Glaser

If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be...I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around - that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment. — Milton Glaser

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

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. — Milton Glaser

You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life. — Milton Glaser

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

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

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. — Milton Glaser

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

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies. — Milton Glaser

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

The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else. — Milton Glaser

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry. — Milton Glaser

Less isn't more; just enough is more. — Milton Glaser

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