Milton Glaser Quotes

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.

To have a style is to be stuck.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. –Milton Glaser

You must embrace failure

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.

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.

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

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.

Less i snot necessarily more. Just enough is more." –Milton Glaser

Whenever Picasso learned how to do something, he abandoned it.” —Milton Glaser When

The next time you see a sixteen-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.

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

He designed the iconic Bob Dylan poster and the I Love New York icon. Milton Glaser

He taught him to wag his trunk like a tail. Then Arnold painted the most beautiful cat's face on the elephant.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. —Milton Glaser

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more." –Milton Glaser