Milton Glaser Design Quotations

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

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

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.

Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

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