Milton Glaser Quotes & Sayings

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

“Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Color is so intuitive.”

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

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

“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.”