Milton Glaser Quotes

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.

- Milton Glaser

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.

- Milton Glaser

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

- Milton Glaser

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

- Milton Glaser

Color is so intuitive.

- Milton Glaser

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.

- Milton Glaser

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

- Milton Glaser

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

- 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.

- Milton Glaser

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

- Milton Glaser

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

- Milton Glaser