Milton Glaser

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Color is so intuitive.

There are three responses to a piece of design yes no and WOW Wow is the one to aim for.

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.

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

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

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.

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