Quotes from Tibor Kalman

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

By definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

Everything is an experiment.

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.