21 Inspirational Graphics Design Quotes To Motivate You

In graphics design, I have discovered that often times there is a need for some inspiration. The creative world depends a lot on inspirations and motivations. I personally often get inspired by words of wisdom spoken by others. I have therefore compiled a list of 21 inspirational graphics design quotes to motivate you.

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21 INSPIRATIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN QUOTE TO MOTIVATE YOU

• “There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” Milton Glaser
• “I’ve never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.” - Bob Gill
• “If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.” - Michael Bierut
• “Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”
• “Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.” – Nicholas Negroponte
• “Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.” –Paul Arden
• “If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.” –Paraphrased from Charles Bukowski’s poem “Roll the Dice”
• “The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.” - Paul Rand
• “Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.” - David Carson:
• “It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.” - Paula Scher
• “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• “But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.” - Marian Bantjes
• “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
• “It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people’s lives.” –Don Norman
• “If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.” –Ralf Speth
• “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” –Steve Jobs
• “If you do it right, it will last forever.” –Massimo Vignelli
• “You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.” –George Nelson
• “The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.”- Massimo Vignelli
• Jeffrey Zeldman: “Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.”

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