Vignelli Design Quotes & Sayings

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with. — Nicole Kidman

Unfortunately, there are designers and marketing people who intentionally look down on the consumer with the notion that vulgarity has a definite appeal to the masses, and therefore they supply the market with a continuos flow of crude and vulgar design. I consider this action criminal since it is producing visual pollution that is degrading our environment just like all other types of pollution. — Massimo Vignelli

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not. — Massimo Vignelli

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough. — Jane Fonda

I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in life. And then I would start to look at architectural magazines and I eventually went to the school of architecture too, but one of the things I learned very early is that an architect should be able to design anything from a spoon to the city. — Massimo Vignelli

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y. — Massimo Vignelli

We mustn't claim to stand for our King but then deny Him by living a fleshly existence. Our King's Mighties don't shy away from the blazing searchlight of God's Word, but rather, willingly expose their souls and cry, 'Dear King, if there be anything that stands between You and me, if there be anything that shrouds Your glory, if there be anything that will weaken my sword in battle, purge it, slay it, utterly destroy it! — Eric Ludy

If all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! — Massimo Vignelli

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

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. — Massimo Vignelli

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. — Thomas Jefferson

If you do it right, it will last forever. — Massimo Vignelli

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment. — Massimo Vignelli

John 16:33. Sure, in this world they would have trouble. But God didn't leave them with that depressing fact. Rather, he finished the Scripture with the everlasting promise ... words she could hear the Lord whispering to her soul this very instant. My precious daughter, be of good cheer ... for I have overcome the world ... — Karen Kingsbury

I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage. — Massimo Vignelli

Daily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health ... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion ... — Joseph Pilates

In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear. — Massimo Vignelli

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It's really more about logic than imagination. — Massimo Vignelli

Good design is ubiquitous and forever. — Massimo Vignelli

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. — Norman Lear

So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world a better place to be. It doesn't have to be one style. We're not talking about style, we're talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality. — Massimo Vignelli

They will often tell me they can't love themselves because they are so fat, or as one girl put it, 'too round at the edges.' I explain that they are fat because they don't love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it's amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies. — Louise Hay

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable. — Massimo Vignelli

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli

Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else. — Massimo Vignelli

My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus. — Alan Chambers

He didn't just want to mate with Becca, he wanted her to orgasm around his dick for a decade. — Kathy Lyons

If you can design one thing, you can design everything. — Massimo Vignelli

Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands. — Jojo Moyes

The repercussion of ugliness is endless. — Massimo Vignelli

You can say, "I love you," in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate, you know, and it might work. — Massimo Vignelli