Quotes from Milton Glaser

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

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

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.

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

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.

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

Color is so intuitive.

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.

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

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

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.

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

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

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

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

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.

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.

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.

You must embrace failure

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

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.

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

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